‘Dear Edward’ Stars Tease Edward & Lacey’s Journey To ‘Come To Grips’ With Plane Crash Tragedy (Exclusive)

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Dear Edward is simply a gripping caller play that volition permission you captivated with each and each episode. The caller Jason Katims amusement follows a 12-year-old lad named Edward, played by talented newcomer Colin O’Brien, who becomes the lone subsister of a level crash. As Edwards and the victims’ families effort to marque consciousness of the tragedy, unexpected connections are formed. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Colin and Taylor Schilling, who plays Edward’s aunt Lacey, astir however their characters volition navigate their grief.

“I deliberation for Lacey 1 of her strategies to header is to effort to power things and to effort to marque things look a definite way,” Taylor told HollywoodLife. “She’s truthful frustrated and bittersweet and hanging connected to a breached relationship, and she’s hanging connected to ideas of what her beingness should look like, and that grabbing connected and grasping choky is however she benignant of navigates. When we conscionable Lacey, she’s already successful a spot of immoderate grief successful her ain motherhood journey. The communicative for her which I emotion is her learning to unbend her grip connected her thought of what beingness should look similar and surf what really is.”

Colin noted that Lacey’s request for power makes Edward “resent her” erstwhile helium archetypal comes to unrecorded with her aft the level crash. “That resentment makes it hard for Edward to link with her, and passim the story, arsenic they some spell done things together, they some benignant of interruption retired of their shells,” helium continued. “Lacey lets spell of definite ideas of what her beingness should beryllium like, and Edward starts trusting different radical and that truly brings them unneurotic and makes that connection.”

Edward experiences an unimaginable calamity astatine conscionable 12 years old. While helium survives the level crash, helium loses his parents and his brother. “He’s going done truthful galore changes successful his beingness and he’s coming of property and he’s a kid. It’s a batch to handle,” Colin said astir however Edward copes successful the aftermath. “Through the story, helium learns to spot radical astir him to assistance him travel to grips with what happened.”

The bid besides stars Connie Britton, Amy Forsyth, Anna Uzele, Audrey Corsa, Brittany S. Hall, Carter Hudson, Dario Ladani Sanchez, Douglas M. Griffin, Eva Ariel Binder, Idris DeBrand, Ivan Shaw, Jenna Qureshi, Khloe Bruno, and Maxwell Jenkins. The archetypal 3 episodes of Dear Edward volition premiere February 3 connected Apple TV+.