(CNN) — Sam Levinson is spilling tea about the new season of “ ”… and the time gap everyone’s wondering about.

The creator of the hit HBO Max series shared a peek at the new episodes at an event in London this week, according to the BBC, during which he explained that the young adult characters – played by the likes of Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney – have matured since Season 2, which aired in early 2022. (HBO Max is owned by CNN’s parent company.)

Levinson said of pushing the storyline ahead “five years felt like a natural place because if they’d gone to college they’d be out of college at that time.”

For Zendaya’s central character Rue, he explained that in the new season she is “south of the (US) border in Mexico, in debt to Laurie (played by Martha Kelly)

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