‘Good Girls’ Actress Lidya Jewett Teases Season 3 + Shares How She Gets Into Character

At the tender age of 13, rising star Lidya Jewett is shaping herself to be an artist to watch. Her resume is already reading like a wish list with key roles in “Hidden Figures,” “Black Panther,” and “The Darkest Minds.” Now you can see Lidya as Sara Hill on NBC’s Good Girls. She plays the delightful rambunctious older child of Ruby and Stan Hill (Retta and Reno Wilson) who is suffering from a kidney disease in the premiere season. At the brink of season 3, which premiered Sunday, February 16, Lidya’s character Sara is getting older and more wiser to the extracurricular activities her mother is involved in.

Glambergirlblog got to chat with Lidya Jewett all about what fans can expect in season 3 of Good Girls, auditioning for roles, and how she got started in the industry. “Almost every time me and my family would go out we would get stopped by someone and they’d be attracted to something in me.” Born in Ethiopia, Jewett was adopted at 4-years-old and started working in the entertainment industry rather early. “Everyone would say ‘she should be in commercials, she should be in a modeling class,’ and that happened for about a year. It was actually my older sister who said if one more person says that to us then we don’t have to actually pursue it, but we just need to check it out. Of course one more person came up to us.”

Reaching out to a family friend who had some knowledge of the industry, Jewett’s family wanted to know what to avoid when starting Lidya’s career, and as cliche as it may sound, opportunities just started to happen. The audition process can be nerve-racking at at any age, but Lidya went into them with a very optimistic perspective. “One of my favorite things was meeting people, so that really took my mind off of the nerves. I was just so excited to meet a new set of people.”

Knowing your lines is another stressful part of auditioning, but Lidya attributes being an avid reader with helping her remember. “What I love to do when I’m reading a book is I put myself in the book as an observer. If you are in a situation you’re of course going to remember what happened in the situation, so that’s the same thing with the books. So I just applied that to the scenes. I can’t tell you how much I love reading books, so I think that’s just the whole putting yourself into it part.”

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Fast forward to 2018 when Good Girls premiered and Lidya put much of herself into the part of Sara Hill. The first moments of meeting Sara on screen she loudly asks a classroom filled with children and parents, “So, why aren’t there any of these awesome women in my history book, huh?” She goes on a slight rant about the importance of powerful women much like what she displayed during her audition for the role. ” I was actually very excited for that audition because it was about women empowerment and me portraying it. My scene that I auditioned with was actually that first scene of me in the classroom where I got to light my history book on fire. I wore a shirt to the audition which read “The future is female” and I loved that shirt so much. Unfortunately it’s too small for me now cause I’ve grown out of it [laughs], but it was amazing cause I put myself in the role.”

As much as Lidya can put herself in the mindset of Sara she has an interesting take on how she gets into character. “Sara has a lot of qualities and values that I also value. She is very intelligent and I am, as I said, a very avid reader. I put so much importance on education and academics so I love seeing myself in Sara, but they’re two different people. I almost imagine it as me meeting Sara and us bonding together over how much we have in common. It’s a difference between meeting her and becoming her,” she shared.

Becoming a family with Retta, Reno Wilson, and Danny Boyd Jr., who plays her younger brother, was something that happened organically. “It all started right away. It all started from the pilot. We really clicked since season 1. We all came together, had scenes together, and we became family.The first season was in Atlanta and so we were all away from our home base because we all lived somewhere else. So what happened was that we were away from our families and we all became a family while we were away from them. We’ve strengthened our bond throughout the seasons. It’s hard to explain because it really just happened and we just clicked. I’m so grateful for that because they’re amazing people and I’m honored to be called a family with them.

GOOD GIRLS — “Pilot” Episode 101 — Pictured: (l-r) Retta as Ruby Hill, Lidya Jewett as Sara Hill — (Photo by: Justin Lubin/NBC)

Looking ahead in season 3 Jewett teased a little of what to expect to GGB. “I can’t say a lot, but I can say I’m growing up. Sara is growing up. She kind of picks up on the clues of what they’re doing and what’s going on behind the scenes. She’s very smart, so I think she’s figuring it out. I think everyone’s going to be surprised and excited.”

Outside of appearing in Good Girls look out for Lidya in the Netflix Original film “Feel the Beat” starring Sofia Carson. The ensemble cast features a misfit group of tween girls, including Jewett, as a dance troupe who is lead by Carson’s character into a big competition. Closing out our chat Lidya offered up wise words for anyone pursuing a dream. “I want to encourage people who want to do anything in their life. Don’t give up because there’s only one of you and that you is very valuable. If you give up and stop pursuing what you want to do the world is going to miss out.”

Keep up with Lidya Jewett on social media @LidyaJewett on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Watch the official trailer for season 3 of NBC’s Good Girls in the clip below. Be sure to catch Lidya Jewett and new episodes of the series every Sunday at 10pm. What did you think about the season 3 premiere? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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