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Audrey Corsa is showcasing her scope connected 2 precise antithetic shows and having a breakout moment. The histrion plays Zoe successful the Apple TV+ series Dear Edward and volition look successful an upcoming occurrence of Rian Johnson’s critically-acclaimed deed Poker Face. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Audrey astir her Dear Edward character, who is dealing with the tragic nonaccomplishment of her begetter and navigating a analyzable narration with her mother, played by Connie Britton.
Audrey Corsa astatine the ‘Dear Edward’ premiere. (MediaPunch/Shutterstock)Audrey has “admired” Connie for years and has ever wanted to enactment with Dear Edward creator Jason Katims, who besides executive-produced Friday Night Lights. The histrion said “working with Connie was conscionable genuinely better” than she ever could person imagined.
“We truly wanted to springiness this mother-daughter narration the nuance that it deserves because, successful a batch of shows, it tin beryllium ma reaching out, girl slapping manus away, and that beauteous overmuch advertisement nauseam, until you’re conscionable similar Jesus Christ, you guys. We truly wanted to play to the emotion there,” Audrey said. “There’s a batch of confusion. There’s a batch of grief. There’s truthful overmuch I deliberation that the amusement touches connected successful presumption of conscionable the antithetic ways that antithetic radical grip loss. Zoe’s young, and she’s successful college. She’s had a batch of things handed to her, and this is conscionable similar the rug being ripped retired from nether her and truly world taking successful for the archetypal clip successful a batch of ways that benignant of unfold passim the season. Things commencement to crumble adjacent much aft her begetter passes.”
Audrey noted that the narration betwixt Zoe and her parent volition beryllium “push and pull” passim the play arsenic they woody with the nonaccomplishment of Zoe’s begetter and Dee Dee’s hubby who died successful a plane crash. “It’s similar an ebb and a travel for them due to the fact that astatine definite points. It’s similar each you privation to bash is bent connected to the idiosyncratic that you person left,” she explained. “At different points, they’re the idiosyncratic who you tin propulsion each of your choler and resentment for the idiosyncratic who died on. You tin usage them arsenic the replacement for the idiosyncratic you lost. It conscionable gets confusing and pugnacious and there’s nary guidebook for this stuff.”
The All Rise alum hadn’t work Ann Napolitano’s caller up of her audition. After speechmaking the aviator and playing the euphony cues, she realized she had to work the book. “What an absorbing survey connected grief, and it’s precise antithetic from the amusement successful a batch of ways. There are stories that beryllium successful the amusement that don’t beryllium successful the book, but the wide satellite and the halfway communicative of Edward are the same. I deliberation that’s specified a almighty story,” she said.
Connie Britton and Audrey Corsa successful ‘Dear Edward.’ (Apple TV+)In summation to Dear Edward, Audrey volition besides beryllium appearing successful the Peacock bid Poker Face. She teased that her quality is similar your “least favourite theatre kid,” truthful she “got to excavation into each my past of that. It was precise fun.” Audrey admitted that she thought she had initially “f***ed” up her audition for Poker Face.
“Probably similar 3 hours later, I got a telephone and they were like, ‘They privation you.’ At that point, I was inactive filming Dear Edward successful New York, and we were shooting immoderate worldly upstate. It worked retired perfectly with the schedules. They were some shooting astatine the aforesaid time. It worked retired perfectly that I could conscionable beryllium picked up from 1 spot and taken to the adjacent and that was truthful cool.”
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