Aw, anon, it’s so nice to read about someone feeling so positively moved. 🙂 It really was serendipitous, they’re such a good pair on every level, they match aesthetically, they’re so physically comfortable with each other, they balance the high energy of Val and the restraint of Juls, they work through even improvised lines and make everything so natural.
And as another anon mentioned, it was pretty much by accident, Maca breaking her leg and having to bow out of another project, Barbara auditioning for another character. It just worked out like this.