Damian Hardung and Harriet Herbig-Matten turned shut buddies 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 non-public college classmates Ruby (Herbig-Matten) and James (Hardung).
Maxton Corridor shortly 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 shaped a bond as they waited for followers to lastly see their laborious work come to life two years later. The pair later revealed that their first interplay didn’t instantly end in 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 smug boy there?’ However in our second and final audition, it simply clicked and we had stress,” Herbig-Matten solely 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 attention-grabbing dynamic whereas capturing. As a result of we had been actually simply going via every part that the characters had been going via.”
He continued: “Each time we knew the following day we’re gonna have a shoot the place we hate one another, we actually didn’t discuss the evening earlier than. If we knew the following day we’re gonna be greatest buddies then we went out for dinner collectively.”
Maintain scrolling to see the sweetest moments from Hardung and Herbig-Matten’s friendship as they proceed to movie season 2 of Maxton Corridor: