The Storm episode with Alicia (portrayed by Alycia Debnam- Carey) was an awesome experience for Alexa. She recalls that even when she read the script, she had tears in her eyes as there are not many teenage girls who get to do a scene with so many emotions involved, with many astounding dialogues.

Before that episode, Alexa and Alycia weren’t as close because they did not have many scenes and shoot together. Still, after the Storm episode, they bonded a lot as they performed tons of stunts together. They were out in the rain. The whole environment was intense around them. Still, it was in between during those scenes where they bonded and became so close. To date, Alexa feels extremely grateful for getting the opportunity to work with someone as amazing as Alycia.

Alexa Nisenson in “Fear The Walking Dead”

For Alexa, Alycia is like a big sister. Alexa still gets teary-eyed whenever she watches that episode. The episode is very close to her heart. “It was amazing. I remember opening the script, and I still get emotional to this day watching the episode. I got emotional reading it because when I read it, I knew that it would be such a special experience. As a teenage girl, there aren’t many scripts you get like that where it’s just a lot of emotion and a ton of amazing dialogue. I’m so beyond lucky to work with Alycia. We had an amazing time, and we hadn’t worked together that much before that, so we really bonded during that episode. We did a lot of stunts together, and we were out in the rain in the storm all day every day, so we were just together all the time pretty much, so we really bonded and got close then, and she’s truly like a big sister to me, and she’s just so beyond talented. We were in a very intense state because pretty much the majority of the scenes we were doing were incredibly emotional.”

For Alexa- Alycia and Ruben are the two constant mentors from whom she is always learning something or the other. Be it in her personal life or professional life. They have been there for her, guiding her, supporting her, and taking up mentors’ roles for her. She describes Alycia as her big sister whom she looks up to. She believes Ruben is a very talented, smart, and fun person to be around. He has been a constant motivator and a mentor for her. She has learned so much from both of them.
“All of them have been so incredible, and I feel like I am constantly learning things when I’m around them about things in personal life or acting and our job, but I think just because I’ve worked with them the most definitely Alycia is like a big sister to me, and Ruben has been kind of a mentor to me, and he is so just talented and so incredibly smart, he’s so sweet and humble and kind and is inclusive. You can’t ask for a better group of people, but definitely, since I’ve worked with them, most probably Alycia and Ruben have been like mentors to me. I mean all of them but especially these two because we’ve worked together the most.”

Alexa is homeschooled and works and studies online on her computer. She was initially enrolled in a proper regular school. Still, She would miss out on a lot of her studies due to her packed schedule, which is when she, along with her family members, decided it was best for her to be homeschooled so that she wouldn’t miss out on her studies and could keep up with her classmates/ friends and students of her age group.

“I am homeschooled, so all my schoolwork is all on my computer all online, so I pretty much bring my computer to set and work on whatever I’m doing then with my teacher I was in real school with for a while and then once I started on The Walking Dead it got more difficult because I was never there to attend school. We film in Austin, Texas, so I was pretty much never at home, and it was incredibly difficult at that point to keep up attendance and know what was going on in the class so then after being on the show for a while, we decided that it would be best to homeschool because, at times, we filmed for seven months and back and forth too. For longevity, it wasn’t sustainable at that point, so I think it’s possible if the schedule allows it, but when you’re filming a show like this, especially when you’re in a different state, it’s pretty challenging.”