When it comes to fashion, Antonia Gentry’s style doesn’t always align with her Ginny & Georgia character, Ginny Miller. “I haven’t been through a Hot Topic phase since 2010,” she laughs. “But even this season, it’s less punky. There were definitely a few outfits that I was like, ‘Oh, I could go home with this and not be mad about it.’”
Gentry opted for a cozy-chic look, featuring an oversized green sweater over a black turtleneck during our sit-down. “You will, 80% of the time, see me in a black turtleneck,” she confirms. “My friends call my style cosmopolitan. I think what they mean is that I look like I could either be coming from a business meeting or going to a nice dinner. I like to be transitional with my fashion choices.”
While her everyday style is closer to the average 20-something, Gentry has also spent some time front row at Paris and New York Fashion Week, wearing the hottest trends and diamond jewelry from high-end designers. “It’s been so fun to explore and be introduced to new brands and stylists and be surrounded by really cool people,” she says. Specifically, working with stylists has helped her expand her sense of style. “Growing up, I hated wearing skirts and dresses,” Gentry explains. “But now I’m totally okay with feeling like a princess or a chic, put-together French girl.”
That princess feeling certainly came into play on set with Only Natural Diamonds, where Antonia Gentry dripped in natural diamond jewels from Ana Khouri, Boucheron, Dior, Reza, and more. “I felt super luxurious,” she says of the experience. “Everyone just used me as their canvas [for the diamonds], and it was super cool to see.” She was most surprised by the creativity of the stylist, Taylor Kim, who used a necklace as an anklet for one of the looks. “I was able to jump around, and it was a fun way to draw the jewelry to an unexpected part of the body.”
“One of my favorite looks was the cone bra outfit,” she recalls. “I feel like the jewelry that we wore just really went well with it. I felt very vintage and retro chic.”
As someone who self-identifies as “forgetful,” Gentry isn’t sure she wants to make the commitment and invest in natural diamonds just yet, but she knows the perfect piece to add to her collection when she’s ready. “Having a nice, little diamond tennis bracelet that I just never take off, ever, would be really cool,” she shares, her face lighting up when she learned tennis jewelry is one of the best places to start your diamond collection. “Oh, cool! It could elevate anything and go with anything.”
Natural diamonds, of course, make the Ginny & Georgia star look brilliant, but the actress does that on her own in the fan-favorite Netflix show. Stepping into season three felt familiar for Gentry, even after getting delayed by the writer’s strike in 2023. “It’s just always so wonderful,” she says of returning to set. “I love my cast and crew, and we were super excited for this season because plot-wise, I think it’s the biggest of the three.”
We pick up right after the events of the season two finale as Ginny’s mom, Georgia (Brianne Howey), is arrested for murder, right after marrying Mayor Paul Randolph (Scott Porter). This season is “so much more intense and crazier than season two,” Gentry says. “I’m excited to see everyone’s reactions.”
Part of what makes the show so beloved is the obvious chemistry between Antonia Gentry and Brianne Howey, who plays her mother, Georgia. “I kind of see her as an older sister figure and, because we are so close in age,” she says, describing her on-screen mom as a “wonderful scene partner.” Despite being an upbeat show, things can get heavy for the characters and the situations they find themselves in. “We both have to put so much emotional energy into these characters, which also helps release the weight of it all because we’re sort of in it together,” Gentry says of her scenes with Howey.
“This season, you really see them come into their own in different ways,” she explains. “The dynamics between the two of them are constantly being flipped upside down.” While Georgia is always looking to protect her kids, she doesn’t always make the best choices. “Sometimes Ginny is the mom figure, sometimes Georgia is the mom figure, and I think this season you really see that happen to an extent where, by the end of it, you don’t know if it’s for better or for worse.”
Ginny is working on herself this season, consistently seeing a therapist and using poetry as an outlet for her emotions, something Gentry has in common with her character. “I’m an English and creative writing major,” she shares. “When I was 16, I had my own poetry book that I used as an outlet, but I never performed it like Ginny does,” she says, clearly proud of how her character has developed over these last few seasons. “The fact that Ginny is out there performing her own written pieces is a statement of how she’s grown and how she can express herself in a healthier way.”
While Ginny tries to find ways to cope with some of the curveballs life has thrown at her, Antonia Gentry has her own methods of finding zen. “I am someone who tends to need my alone time if things start to feel overwhelming,” explains the actress. “Whether I go play piano for a bit or sit and play Sims, literally,” she says with a laugh. “If I’m going through something, my Sim also has to have a worse day. Sometimes I’m logging on, and I’m like, ‘How can I ruin my Sim’s day today?’” Millennials who grew up with a family desktop can certainly relate.
Playing piano and being involved in the arts was a major outlet for Gentry growing up, something she realizes she was lucky to have. “Without that, I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing right now, and so many kids in school don’t have access to extracurriculars that enrich their lives,” she says. “It’s definitely something that I want to find the right program to be a part of to help bring arts and joy and extracurriculars to a lot of students who don’t have access to it.”
Protecting the humanities is just one responsibility Gentry feels she can help shoulder, along with protecting our planet – an issue that so many young people feel connected to today. She recently did a campaign with Organic Basics to benefit the Rainforest Trust, donating 1% of every order from the Antonia Gentry collection to the organization, which supports the Amazon Rainforest. “It’s a conservation effort to keep the sanctity of and protect the Amazon, its ecosystem, and the wildlife there,” she explains. The initiative is similar to the natural diamond industry’s efforts to protect local wildlife in diamond-producing regions like Canada’s Northwest Territories and Botswana.
As for Ginny’s contribution to the world, Gentry just hopes that her character finds a sense of security in her life. “It would be nice to see her finally have a constant, finally have a touchstone of peace and direction and guidance that she can truly trust and rely on,” she muses. “I want her to be able to not worry about anyone other than herself for a moment.”
It’s clear that Antonia Gentry has a soft spot for Ginny and genuinely cares for her, fictional or not. “I love her relationship with her grandmother, Lynette, this season,” she adds. “Ginny’s parents are also very young and are also figuring things out, so having someone like Lynette in her life is so great. I’m glad that’s a dynamic, and we’re going to see a little bit more of it.”
Many more exciting dynamics come into play in season three of Ginny & Georgia, and you can watch all the juicy drama, sweet scenes, and heart-thumping moments on Netflix on June 3.
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