Even though she’s been friends with Tegan and Sara for years, Clea DuVall admitted she was “terrified” for her pals to watch “High School” — the new series based off the musical duo’s lives — for the first time.
“I mean, I was so nervous for them to see the first cuts of the episode,” she told Page Six Thursday night at the premiere of the Amazon Freevee show in Los Angeles. “I was terrified because I was just like, ‘What if you hate this and we just spent all this time and our friendship, what’s going to happen?’”
Luckily, the “Where Does the Good Go” singers “really loved it.”
“Then the next thing I was most nervous about was for their mom to see it and their friends and their dad and their stepdad and luckily they also liked the show,” DuVall, who created, co-wrote and directed the series, said.
“High School” was adapted from Tegan and Sara Quin’s autobiography of the same name and follows the twins — played by Seazynn and Railey Gilliland — as they discover their passion for music and growing up queer in Canada in the ’90s. Tegan and Sara serve as executive producers on the series.
The cast — including Cobie Smulders and Kyle Bornheimer — celebrated the release of the eight-episode season with a ’90s grunge-themed house party at No Vacancy in Hollywood on Thursday night.
Smulder’s husband, Taran Killam, “Orange Is the New Black” alum Natasha Lyonne and “Happiest Season” star Mary Holland were also in attendance as guests watched a ’90s cover band, ate pizza and poutine and sipped on drinks aptly titled “The Tegan” and “The Sara.” Attendees also snapped photos on disposable Kodak cameras and were able to sign giant yearbook murals lining the entryway into the Hollywood hot spot.
The series premiered Friday on Amazon Freevee.