It’s a conversation Armando desperately wanted and needed to have, since his wife Isabel has been denying the entire situation in the months since Victor came out, putting a major strain on her relationship with Victor, which is exactly what Armando wanted to avoid.
“We always are like, ‘What’s a natural way to bring the Love, Simon world into our Love, Victor world?’ That felt like a way to do it,” Berger tells EW.
“You know, that’s a big deal to be a part of that! And he still made the time and came in and did that storyline and absolutely crushed it.
The main concern was always making Duhamel’s cameo feel “organic, because we never want it to feel like we’re just looking for excuses to bring characters from the movie into the universe of our show,” Aptaker says.
And once that idea was solidified, the showrunners were overjoyed when it actually worked out and Duhamel agreed to come film his scenes.
“He was really excited to bring the two parental stories together, to allow them to collide like that,” he says.