'American Crime:' Connor Jessup on Teens Being a 'Difficult Demographic'

The cast of ABC’s drama American Crime is comprised of veteran actors — such as Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton, and Lili Taylor — as well as up-and-coming young talent like Connor Jessup.

Jessup and Taylor talked to us at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour about what it’s like to have a storyline center on teenagers on the small screen.

“Teenagers are a very difficult demographic to represent on TV. It has this plague of annoying teenagers in a lot of different TV shows. I won’t name anyone in particular,” Jessup said. “I don’t think that it happens in this show. I don’t think that’s me, or Joey [Pollari] or Trevor [Jackson].”

Jessup and Taylor agreed that American Crime does an amazing job of portraying teenagers and certain aspects of their lives.

“John [Ridley] and his team treat teenagers as people,” Jessup said. “They treat them as complex, intricate, broken, strong people, and I think that it makes the working experience incredibly exciting.”

Watch American Crime’s Felicity Huffman and Timothy Hutton grill the cast of How to Get Away with Murder and other TV stars in the video below.

American Crime airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on ABC.