Damian Hardung and Harriet Herbig-Matten grew to become shut pals whereas enjoying love pursuits — James and Ruby — on Maxton Corridor.
The Prime Video collection, which debuted in Might 2024, relies on Mona Kasten‘s Save You ebook collection. The six-part German-language TV drama launched viewers to an unlikely enemies to lovers romance between personal college classmates Ruby (Herbig-Matten) and James (Hardung).
Maxton Corridor rapidly discovered record-breaking success by being the most-watched non-U.S. title throughout its first week on Prime Video. It was renewed for a second season one week after its debut.
After filming the collection in 2022, Hardung and Herbig-Matten fashioned a bond as they waited for followers to lastly see their onerous work come to life two years later. The pair later revealed that their first interplay didn’t instantly lead to a friendship.
“I believe in our first audition, he had come into the room and he had this go well with on and I used to be like, ‘Who’s this boastful boy there?’ However in our second and final audition, it simply clicked and we had stress,” Herbig-Matten completely instructed Us Weekly in June 2024. “So we had chemistry, we simply didn’t see that.”
Hardung additionally recalled constructing belief with Herbig-Matten as they labored on the present collectively, including, “We had a really fascinating dynamic whereas taking pictures. As a result of we have been actually simply going by means of every little thing that the characters have been going by means of.”
He continued: “Each time we knew the subsequent day we’re gonna have a shoot the place we hate one another, we actually didn’t speak the evening earlier than. If we knew the subsequent day we’re gonna be finest pals then we went out for dinner collectively.”
Preserve scrolling to see the sweetest moments from Hardung and Herbig-Matten’s friendship as they proceed to movie season 2 of Maxton Corridor:
