Love, Victor

Michael Cimino talks to 'Cosmopolitan' about 'Love, Victor's finale, whether he would ever play Victor again, and the show's move back to Disney+.

The most important thing is I hope this show has changed your guys' life as much as it changed mine. So I think that I'm really excited to just explore that and whatever's next. I hope that it has that effect on the audience as well. Now, I feel like I am brave and I feel like I do know how to navigate a lot more situations, not just in this industry, but also just in life. But it definitely had a long-lasting effect on me, and I will never forget the experiences I've shared on this show. I think the most important thing, more than anything else, is just that more people get to see this story. And I was also learning how to embrace who I was as a person and how to be brave. I think that we will see the effects of this show for a very long time, even more so than we realize. It's safe to say that this show has changed your life, especially as your first starring role. I feel like a lot of people can relate to that, where you kind of come to know and love something and then this chapter is done. We told the story of Victor, and it's done now so we don't need to be telling the story anymore. I think the way that they did was super nice because it wrapped up all the storylines very well.

Love, Victor comes to an end with Season 3 -- but who does Victor end up with? Does he stick with Nick, go for Rahim, or return to Benji?

They were able to give all of the characters a finale moment and they resolved all of the lingering relationship drama. Victor and Benji aren’t the only couple you’re interested in. And when Benji finds out that Victor only “moved on” to Nick because Benji’s dad told Victor to stay away? In the series finale, Benji tells Victor that he’s leaving Creekwood to go to a boarding school in Connecticut. He just needs to get away from all the drama. Nope! Victor says a lot of nice stuff about his relationship with Benji during his speech, which causes both Victor and Nick to realize that there’s still unfinished business between these too. With Season 3 now out on Hulu and Disney+, the students of Creekwood are getting a lot of closure and a lot of new opportunities.

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Victor and Benji have introspective healing that is necessary for them to come back together in the series finale, which they do on the iconic ferris wheel that was first introduced in the film Love, Simon. But you know that age-old adage that the journey is more important than the destination? Victor is pushed back to Benji because he realizes that there just isn’t the same spark with anyone else. Victor’s acceptance of himself as a gay teenager has always been tied to his crush on classmate and eventual co-worker Benji Campbell (George Sear). In the very first episode of the show, Victor realizes that he feels things for Benji that are much different than what he feels for girls. Benji realizes that Victor exacerbates his drinking issues, and he goes off to rehab after the premiere episode. The stress of Victor leaving him caused Benji to break his sobriety that has been touched upon a couple of times in the previous seasons, but never explored further until this third season. Rather than being pushed to the background as a sidekick, Victor Salazar (Michael Cimino) is the star of the whole shebang, the Latino teenager that we put all of our attention towards.

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When you surround yourself with people that embrace you and love you for who you are, that is so validating and I feel like that is so needed.” It took Victor a whole three seasons to figure that out and I feel like finally at the last few episodes, he’s really connected to who he is as a person and makes decisive decisions, even though he might make the wrong ones. “I think the kind of the success, the impact the show has had really speaks to the demand that there is for these LGBTQ stories,” Sear continues. Sear starts off by saying, “I think Pride to me is all about celebrating who you are and just being yourself - and it’s all about love, as well. “I think it’s amazing,” says Sear, who plays Benji on Love, Victor. “I think it’s great that it is going to be going out to a bigger audience. “So many people fall in love with their first loves and really do see a future with them and I think that’s a universal thing.

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Sear, for his part, told the outlet that knowing the show was ending ultimately shaped their approach to Season 3. We want to people to leave with a feeling that these kids are going to be all right.” “It’s like, Victor’s learned how to accept who he is. “I think people will be very satisfied and happy with our endings,” he told TV Insider. “We wanted to balance our drama with a sense of optimism, hopefulness, and wish-fulfillment. Premiering all eight final episodes on June 15, Love, Victor’s final season finds the titular character, played by Michael Cimino, “going on a journey of self-discovery — not only deciding who he wants to be with, but more broadly, who he wants to be,” per Hulu’s description. Though Hulu renewed its LGBTQ+ coming-of-age drama Love, Victor last July, the streamer revealed in February that the series would end with Season 3.

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She also explains why she left Mia and her dad years ago, sharing that “I was losing myself in that house” when Mia’s father refused to ever support her artistic ambitions. After a long drive, Mia and Andrew reach the address that’s been listed for her mom as of late, and they quickly spot her among the crowd that’s there for a house party of some sort. But when Felix later seeks some advice from Victor on the subject, Victor shares that his parents — especially his dad — are quite protective of Pilar, and she might just not want to expose Felix to that just yet. Felix has only ever known her as Victor’s little sister, and she doesn’t want him to view her as a little kid. Victor’s best friend and younger sister are Officially A Thing, but Pilar is reluctant to reveal the new relationship to her parents; she even tells her mom, while Felix is sitting right there, that “there’s nobody” special in her life at the moment. About a year after its sophomore season concluded, leaving us to wonder whether its title character had chosen Benji or Rahim, Love, Victor returned for a third and final batch of episodes on Wednesday — and, as the Season 3 trailer strongly suggested, Victor has picked Benji as his one and only.

The 'Love, Victor' creative team — Michael Cimino, George Sear, Elizabeth Berger and Issac Aptaker — break down the show's series finale.

Reading the scripts, I was hopeful they would have that happy ending — and it was nice to share with Michael too. Aptaker: That was the twist of the season. There’s a scene where he’s in AA and he really opens up, and he’s really vulnerable and some of that dialogue put it into context for me to give him the space to grow. Berger: We went back to the philosophy we had making “Love, Simon,” where it was so important for us to give young people — especially young queer people — the big, joyful romantic comedy experience. We very much want this to be the kind of teen drama that has existed for generations but not necessarily for this audience. It is really nice they have that full circle moment, because ultimately they love each other and it was nice to see them together at the end of it all. Too often, LGBTQ+ stories end in tragedy or compromise — was it important for you to give Victor, his inner circle and the audience a happy ending? Over the course of the third season, Victor finds who he is alone and who he is as an individual, and it gives the audience enough confidence to let him go out into the world and not have too many questions. Victor found out who he was this season, and realized that Benji was the right person for him. We sat down with Hulu toward the beginning of the season and the decision was reached this was the final one. That was the big mission of the season, how do we give everyone the ending they deserve? Only this time, it was his ex-boyfriend Benji (George Sear) sitting beside Victor, professing their love for one another after they spent the season apart so Benji could address his alcoholism and Victor could get to know himself.