The darkish comedy, which stars Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina as a California couple who begin a podcast after befriending a real-life serial killer, is again this week, with Liberato’s character Tory shifting to the forefront.

Whereas she was on the sidelines most of Season 1, the finale ended with a cliffhanger revealing Tory was in a secret relationship with Tom Bateman’s killer, Matt Pierce. That thread will proceed when the brand new episodes drop Friday — with the trailer for Season 2 teasing an engagement between the pair, as Tory stays at the hours of darkness about her lover’s predilection for homicide.

“I used to be actually wanting ahead to it,” Liberato informed TooFab of her expanded function. “I imply, once I signed onto the present, I used to be form of prepped for a possible arc on Season 2. They have been like, ‘We’ll meet Tory, however we would not get to know her except we get one other season.’”

“In the end, I cherished the script, however I additionally was excited to work with Chris, Kaley, and Tom. I simply assume they’re so gifted and so enjoyable,” she continued. “I used to be stoked, I could not wait to get on set and work with all people. It exceeded my expectations. Generally we might stroll off set and be like, ‘Did they get something?’, as a result of we have been simply laughing the entire time.”

After all, her character’s relationship with Matt will change up the dynamic between her and her on-screen sister, Ava, performed by Cuoco. Ava could be very effectively conscious of Matt’s extracurricular actions — and one can solely assume Tory courting a serial killer is not what she hoped for her sister.

“Yeah, it actually causes a little bit of a rift between Ava and Tory,” teased Liberato. “Ava form of grew up caring for Tory and he or she needs one of the best for Tory. She needs extra for Tory than she had for herself. So, Tory making this insane veer into this relationship is horrifying to her.”

“But in addition, she has to tread evenly as a result of with a sister dynamic,” she added. “In the event you say, ‘Do not try this!’, she’s going to be like, ‘I will do it.’ So, she needs to be a bit of supportive. It is humorous as a result of Ava particularly is the one individual that’s actually onto Matt. She will learn him effectively.”

Liberato additionally teased a “darker” feeling total for the brand new episodes.

“Theres a thriller. You recognize, I believe in season 1, Matt was the menace and — not like Matt is not the menace this season, however there may be additionally extra,” she hinted. “There may be a lot unknown, and it undoubtedly is darker. I believe that there have been quite a lot of methods performed in Season 1 on our viewers. You’d be watching a scene, and all of the sudden it wasn’t actual. I believe that followers ought to look out for moments like that … You are in all probability going to assume that they are not actual, however they’re.”

Watch the video above to see what being on the present additionally made Liberato understand about the way in which she consumes true crime in her personal life.

Earlier than showing in Based mostly on a True Story Season 1, Liberato was coming off filming Scream VI, the place she — SPOILER ALERT — was unmasked as one of many killers. The movie noticed her enjoying the key sister to Jack Quaid’s killer from the fifth film, as she, Dermot Mulroney, and Jack Champion have been all revealed as Ghostface.

Within the time since enjoying Quinn — and getting killed off in the identical film — Liberato has gotten an opportunity to fulfill a few of the different actors who’ve frolicked behind the Ghostface masks.

“Yeah, I’ve, they’re fantastic. It is form of bizarre to say as a result of we’re all loopy,” she informed TooFab.

“I bought to fulfill Skeet Ulrich on Scream 6, which is superior. He is so pretty. I only recently met Matthew Lillard, which he’s the best individual on the planet and such an icon,” she continued. “I met him in Florida, and I met him with Mikey Madison and Tony [Revolori]. There are such a lot of of us!”

“Everytime you get the Scream folks round one another, whether or not we have been in the identical film, we like gravitate in direction of one another,” she shared, earlier than opening up about an “out of physique expertise” with Lillard. “I discovered myself enjoying cornhole and consuming cocktails with Matthew Lillard. I used to be like, ‘Wow, that is actually going to go within the books for positive!’”

Based mostly on a True Story Season 2 drops in full November 21 on Peacock.