• Within the season finale of Étoile, Jack McMillan (Luke Kirby) gives dancer Cheyenne Toussaint (Lou de Laâge) the job of creative director.
• Cheyenne accepts, however then loses the job when the present director recovers from a stroke, sending her right into a tailspin.
• Already in a messy head area, she hooks up with Jack, which is — not nice, Bob.

Cheyenne Toussaint (Lou de Laâge) is a dancer to her core, however the season finale of Étoile had her entertaining the concept of a brand new title, creative director.

After first rejecting the suggestion made by donor (and thorn in Jack's aspect) Crispin Shamblee (Simon Callow), Jack McMillan (Luke Kirby) makes the wild choice to supply the open place of creative director (vacated by the in-a-coma Nicholas) to Cheyenne. And she or he accepts.

"It comes from a really unwelcome place," Kirby says. "And it's a ridiculous thought on the outset. But it surely offers him one factor, which is holding her in New York."

"However I additionally assume that he actually means it when he says that she has imaginative and prescient and that type of imaginative and prescient is uncommon," he continues. "She's a really uncommon pressure and a troublesome one to have round. So I don't assume it comes simply to ask her to take part in it. However he actually thinks that it might make for a really thrilling new season on the firm."

Co-creator Amy Sherman-Palladino agrees that, regardless of the supply of the suggestion, Jack can't deny that giving Cheyenne the job is what his ballet firm wants.

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"Jack goes to combat it tooth and nail, identical to he fought the swap thought," she says. "However in the long run, the longevity of the corporate is crucial factor. And it wants one thing unique. It wants the pop of power. She's the longer term."

Although Cheyenne takes a while to ponder the supply, she finally decides to take the job.

"She is aware of that her profession shouldn’t be everlasting," de Laâge provides. "She has to seek out one other approach to dance as a result of she will be able to't be a dancer for all her life. She's very assured with herself. She's like, 'I’ve a imaginative and prescient, and I’ve one thing to present to the ballet world, so I wish to strive that.'"

The supply creates quite a lot of potential turmoil for the top of the Paris ballet, Geneviève Lavigne (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who is meant to get Cheyenne again after the year-long swap that she and Jack conform to within the sequence premiere.

Paradoxically, with out Geneviève and her encouragement of Jack over the course of the season, Jack seemingly by no means would have made such an out-of-the-box choice. "Geneviève was the person who acquired him out of his lethargy and made him assume that you must take dangers," displays co-creator Dan Palladino. "The choice he makes in episode 8 shouldn’t be a call he would've made after we first met him. He was way more conservative."

"However now Geneviève has proven him the right way to take dangers," Palladino continues. "He realizes, 'Don't go proper down the center, don't go together with one of many ordinary names off the record, go together with somebody who may fail spectacularly, but additionally may succeed spectacularly.' Genevieve acquired him out of his mindset and now he's doing one thing that truly crosses in opposition to Geneviève and is taking a danger on this fiery girl."

The chance, nevertheless, is short-lived when Nicholas magically wakes from his coma and makes a triumphant return to the corporate. A notion that, together with being dumped by dance associate Gael (David Alvarez), sends Cheyenne right into a tailspin.

"She's disillusioned as a result of Jack places this concept in her head," de Laâge says. "She desires to turn out to be the top of the corporate, the creative director. That's turn out to be a dream for her. Now, she's going to combat to have what she desires."

The season ends on an open query of whether or not or not Cheyenne will achieve changing Nicholas within the job.

"It's an actual mess for her," Palladino says. "We began her journey with a lady who was questioning if she had something left in her. She was 32, 33, which is when ballerinas begin occupied with longevity."

"She's in a horribly emotional state on the finish," he displays. "She learn into the slip as mainly the approaching of the tip of her profession. And she or he's appearing rashly. So, there's quite a lot of tidying up emotionally to do."

That mess can also be partly because of the truth that Cheyenne's dance associate, Gael, dumps her proper earlier than they premiere their new ballet. Although Cheyenne appeared to see the connection as one which was purely bodily, she falls aside after the breakup.

"She's actually unhealthy along with her feelings," de Laâge explains. "She even doesn't know for herself what occurred in her physique and her feelings. She's completely misplaced. However I feel she doesn't prefer it when somebody tells her no. She desires to say no, however she doesn't wish to hear no within the mouth of another person. And she or he actually likes him as a result of he's totally different — he's a extremely good dancer, and she or he has admiration for him."

All that turmoil leads Cheyenne to make unhealthy selections — particularly, hooking up with Jack (who we additionally study had a relationship along with her previously).

"Having a love story with this girl is a horrible thought," quips de Laâge.

Kirby provides, "Actually, actually horrible. However not as horrible as being with Gael."

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