Damien Hardung and Harriet Herbig Matten
Amy Graves/Getty ImagesAfter months of speculation, Maxton Hall's Harriet Herbig Matten She finally revealed whether she's dating her partner — and on-screen love interest — Damien Hardung.
During the Thursday, January 15 episode of G-Spot podcast.Herbig Matten, 21, was asked about fan rumors involving her and Hardung, 26, and she replied: “It's been hard. We're not together and we weren't together either.”
The German actress said that she is not ready to ask questions about her personal life after Maxton HallOvernight success.
“It was a crazy experience and also obviously it's a love story (in the show) and you're promoting that. But I think I really underestimated it and I think I was a little naive as well. 'Cause I didn't really know where it was going.”
Prime Video/YouTube Prime Video knew exactly what it was doing by casting Damien Hardung and Harriet Herbig-Matten to bring James and Ruby to life in Maxton Hall. Based on the Save You book series by Mona Kasten, Maxton Hall's story centers on the enemies-to-lovers development between student Ruby Bell (Herbig Matten) and her wealthy classmate (…)
when Maxton Hall It premiered in May 2024, at Herbig-Matten I didn't realize how viewers She will stick by her on-screen relationship with Hardung, adding, “I also didn't know how big a relationship it would become. I didn't know that people believed it so much and that it was something like that.”
The frustrating side Strangers online were weighing in In the Herbig-Matten and Hardung dynamic.
Damien Hardung and Harriet Herbig Matten in “Maxton Hall”
Prime Video“When you always read these comments about how we are together, I start to feel the pressure that it must be right. Only when it is right will I do justice to people and then they will be happy,” she explained. “I thought that for a long time. Then over time, I had to learn how to distance myself from that version.
“There's Ruby and there's the promoted Harriet,” Herbig Matten continued. “So you know that this person who is me and who bears my name is not the real Harriet that I am in my private life. I first had to learn that this does not correspond to reality and that was difficult.”
Damian Hardung and Harriet Herbig Matten became close friends while playing love interests – James and Ruby – at Maxton Hall. The Prime Video series, which debuts in May 2024, is based on the Save You book series by Mona Kasten. The six-part German-language TV drama introduced viewers to an unexpected enemies to lovers romance between private school (…)
Hardung and Herbig Matten catapulted to stardom when Maxton Hall It achieved record success by becoming the most watched title outside the United States during its first week on Prime Video. It was renewed for a second season a week after its debut.
In the middle of the chain It is an unlikely enemies to lovers romance Between Robbie (Herbig Matten) and James (Hardung). The stars previously revealed that their off-screen dynamic reflects their personalities.
“I think in the first audition we did, he came into the room and he was wearing this suit and I was like, 'Who's that arrogant boy over there?' “But in our second and final test, it was a success and we were nervous,” Herbig-Matten said exclusively Us Weekly In June 2024. “So we had chemistry, but we just didn't see it.”
Damien Hardung and Harriet Herbig Matten in “Maxton Hall”
Prime VideoHardung, meanwhile He referred to building trust With Herbig-Matten over time.
“We had a very interesting dynamic while filming. Because we were literally going through everything the characters were going through we In the same month. “Whenever we knew the next day that we were going to have a photoshoot where we hated each other, we literally didn't talk the night before. If we knew the next day we were going to be best friends we went out to dinner together.
So Herbig Matten Reflects on “intense emotions” This came with her “first time playing a love story”.
“And like I said, it was really easy with Damien and I,” she said. we. “We are two different people and we are good friends and have a good connection. It's really important that you handle your relationship (well) but you have to set boundaries and so does the actress and the actor.
Hardung broke the commitment that contributed to the filming James and Ruby's relationshipSaying, “That chemistry has to be felt. It's really about taking all the feelings seriously. You have to be honest about the feelings and I love that.”
Maxton Hall It is streaming on Prime Video.
