Although maximum young characters in ‘Pen15’ are performed by way of age-appropriate actors, Steve, performed by Chau Long, is purposefully older. Here’s why.

Spoiler alert: This article comprises spoilers for Season 2B of Pen15.

The final season of Hulu's Pen15 is now right here, and while we hate to look it go, we like to watch the end spread. In its ultimate few episodes, Steve, who used to be offered in the first part of Season 2, turns into a vital figure in Anna and Maya’s lives.

Played via Chau Long, Steve is *other* from the different young characters as a result of he’s nearer to Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine’s real-life ages.

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At first, this turns out like it’s because Steve in truth is older than maximum of the characters in Pen15. The show is about Anna and Maya in middle college, and the way they navigate that very awkward period in their lives.

But Steve is a high schooler. Thus, it’s only natural that he would seem much older than the different characters on the display. So how old is Chau Long really and who is Steve in Pen15?

Steve is performed via grownup actor Chau Long in ‘Pen15.’

Although all of the students up until this point in Pen15 were performed by way of age-appropriate actors, Chau Long joins the ranks of Maya and Anna as grownup actors enjoying younger. Born in 1986, Chau is 35 years outdated and has been appearing since 2002. People may well be conversant in him from taking part in guest roles on Silicon Valley, Young Sheldon, Grey’s Anatomy, and Euphoria.

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Steve is a vital persona in terms of solidifying Anna and Maya’s friendship via the finish of ‘Pen15.’

Obviously, Anna and Maya have the very best friendship we could ever consider, and despite their world-ending fights during Pen15, they’re the kind of pals who appear to be they’ll make it via anything else. But when a mysterious ninth-grader, Steve, shows up to lead the tech department of the college play in the first part of Season 2, Anna is quickly drawn to him.

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Steve seems like that cool older child (however let’s be honest, he’s most likely no longer that cool since he’s placing out with heart schoolers).

After the faculty play, all through the cast birthday celebration, Steve pulls Anna aside in the alley and provides her some liquor — a big move, and roughly a frightening transfer, for a ninth grader. It surely seems sketchy, however at the same time, we will see how in awe Anna is with this “cool” older kid.

By the end of the second part of Season 2, we learn that Steve was once arrange completely to be a pivotal plot device.

He and Anna start a courting, since she seems “mature” for her age, and because he’s performed by way of an age-appropriate actor, Anna and Steve make out quite just a little in Pen15. Feeling unnoticed, Maya gets her own boyfriend, and prior to they even have a first kiss, he pressures her into oral intercourse.

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When Maya feels violated and shares this with Anna, Anna is rightfully furious on Maya’s behalf. Beyond that, Anna shares what happened to Maya with Steve, but Steve doesn’t take her facet. Instead of siding together with her “cool boyfriend” like many center schoolers would, Maya draws a line in the sand and sides together with her easiest buddy over Steve.

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After Pen15, Chau has a lead position in the new series Total Badass Wrestling, so there are many alternatives to see him on the display screen. While we’d love to know extra about his life, he turns out to keep it beautiful personal with a non-public Instagram and very little social media presence. Chau unquestionably adds a fun new presence to Pen15 that enhances Anna and Maya’s tale.

The 2d a part of Pen15 Season 2 is now to be had to circulate on Hulu.

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