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"If you're not watching MTV's hit dramedy Awkward, you're doing something wrong. And not just because the show's a hilarious and\u2014big sigh!\u2014all-too-relatable portrayal of life as a high schooler, but because Greer Grammer is maybe the coolest girl ever. She not only stars as Lissa, the naive, happy-go-lucky cheerleader with a heart for Jesus and a propensity for pink, but she's also getting her degree in theater from the University of Southern California, binge-watches Netflix (just like the rest of us!), and is crazy sweet to boot.\n\nWhile she grew up in the limelight (her dad is Kelsey Grammer, after all) and split her teen years between boarding school and home school, Greer says those four years were just as awkward as Lissa's\u2014even if they were a bit unconventional. \"I had to go on campus for French class every day, and I had my friends and got a superlative and there was a prom\u2014so it was a little more normal\u2014but it was technically home school.\"\n\nSo, not exactly what you think of when you picture the stereotypical high school experience, but Greer makes a good point: Everyone can relate to Awkward because \"everyone's high school experience is awkward and deals with liking a popular boy and maybe not getting him, and the bully, and being an outcast and wanting to be noticed and everything like that.\" Sounds about right!\n\nThe cool thing about, Lissa, though? She's gotten really good at brushing all those awkward things off. No Jake? No problem! Sadie's being a monster\u2014again? Not gonna fly! \"I think the huge arc between Lissa becoming her own person versus just Sadie's sidekick was during the Season 1 finale at the winter formal, when she slams the window in Sadie's face. She realizes she lost her boyfriend because she was listening to what Sadie was telling her to do, and had a revelation about all the evil things Sadie had done in the past. That was the main step in her becoming her own person.\" Atta girl!\n\nWe're loving the new Lissa, which is great because Greer says we can expect a whole lotta her in Season 4. \"She takes something from Sadie that's very important to her\u2014I don't know what exactly I'm allowed to say, but it's something in regards to school, it's not a boy\u2014and that's a battle for the whole first half of the season,\" says Greer. \"It's kind of nice because Lissa stands up for herself and Sadie isn't the top dog, which is cool.\"\n\nWhat's next for Greer besides, y'know, graduating college, spending her days on the Awkward set, and watching episode after episode of Friday Night Lights? Hopefully a little bit of everything. \"I really want to direct,\" says Greer. \"I took a directing class last semester and I'm taking another one this semester and I really love it.\" Also on the horizon? Writing. Greer says she dreams of penning her own sitcom and calls herself the biggest TV nerd, citing Friends, The O.C., Gilmore Girls, Scandal, and How I Met Your Mother as favorites. For now, though, we're just happy we get to see her every week when Season 4 of Awkward. Watch it tonight!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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