At the core of Ginny & Georgia is a story about the importance of family. A special unintentional easter egg to drive that theme home is the pair of real-life siblings within the show's cast: Raymond Ablack and Rebecca Ablack, also known as Joe and Padma.
On January 13, Netflix shouted out the brother-sister duo on their official Twitter account. “Ginny & Georgia needs more Joe & Padma scenes because it's too cute seeing real-life siblings Raymond & Rebecca Ablack on-screen together!” Season 2 brought the siblings closer together, as Ginny and Padma start working at Blue Farm, the coffee shop that Joe owns.
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Now, Padma calling Joe her “dorky older brother” in season 2 has new — literal and adorable — meaning. This also explains the two actors' incredible comedic chemistry. It seems natural because it is natural! Raymond and Rebecca don't keep their relation a secret, but it took many fans the entire second season to put two and two together.
“Padma and Joe are siblings irl?? How did I not clock they have the same lower half of the face,” wrote one G&G fan on Twitter. It's true, they really do look alike.
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IRL, Raymond (who is 33 years old) and Rebecca (22) show each other sibling love on social media all the time. “Me and a bunch of pictures that Joe from Ginny & Georgia got in???” Rebecca jokingly captioned a season 2 behind-the-scenes photo dump on Instagram.
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“It's not lost on me, how impossible the odds were and how lucky I was to have shared a dream with my sister. Feeling grateful," wrote Raymond in the caption of his own photo dump. In Raymond's carousel, we see the siblings on set at Blue Farm, at a table read, posing in front of the show's logo, and in the makeup trailer together.
Let's hope that Ginny & Georgia season 3, if greenlit, will give the people what they want: more Joe, more Padma, and more banter behind the Blue Farm counter.
