The eight-episode production based on Australian bestseller Liane Moriarty will be streamed exclusively on Prime Video starting Friday, August 20
Seen from the outside they seem to have beautiful lives, brilliant people, they have everything. But the curtain dropped the devastating scenario. We show the difference between reality and representation. Thanks to the adaptation of the novel Big Little Lies won two Emmys (producer and actress). Now Nicole Kidman, with the production staff of The Undoing, starts from another bestseller by Australian writer Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers, for a new foray into seriality that lately gives her more satisfaction than cinema.
The eight-part miniseries directed by Jonathan Levine with Melissa mcCarthy, Michela Shannon, Luke Evans, Bobby Cannavale, arrives on Prime on August 20th. like a closing circle, after all they were miniseries like Vietnam O Bangkok Hilton to introduce myself to Australia. Seriality allows you more time to delve into the characters, explore the nuances. With fewer stereotypes than in the cinema, the actress narrates via zoom, who produced it with her Blossom Films with Bruna Papandrea and David E. Kelly.
She has carved out the role of Masha, icy and mysterious director of Tranquillium House, a remote ultra-luxury resort in the middle of the countryside that promises guests to heal all worries, restore body and mind. The nine guests – a disappointed writer, a disarmed athlete, a couple on the brink of a crisis, a family wounded by a tragedy, a divorce lawyer – arrived to solve small and big personal problems in ten days. They don’t know what awaits them. The wellness center seems to be the contemporary answer to the isolated abodes of Agatha Christie’s novels: none entirely innocent.
Everyone came there to reinvent themselves, change, even heal. They rely onto her that a charismatic and very charming character. A guru with many mysteries to hide. He says: I have experienced death and this makes me appreciate life. But what is life really? Existence as we know it? Or are there others? The strength of Liane Moriarty to deal with everyday things and delicate themes, knowing how to go from comedy to dramatic tones. a series that poses a lot of philosophical questions that fascinate me, opens up new horizons.
Like the treatments that Masha identifies for her guests: she makes them lie down in pits hollowed out by themselves, makes them drink personalized and miraculous soft drinks based on fruit and vegetables. And not only. Gradually we will understand what each of them hides, the latest episodes are revealing. Seriality allows you to take the viewer into unexpected territories. Here we show how strong the masks and barriers we hide behind are and how difficult it is to let them fall. We show understanding what’s behind the curtain, the last thing we wanted to do was ridicule the characters.
The search for balance, he argues, is a very serious matter. The stress It has become a big part of my life, I accepted it, I try to manage it, rather than fight it, there are times when you can’t and times when you act and you can’t be happy. You always have to find a balance. How? I run, swim, meditate, spend time with my family. I don’t know if really a way to fight it or, rather, to surrender to it, says Nicole, engaged in the making of Being the Ricardos by Aaron Sorkin, alongside Javier Bardem, about Lucille Ball and her husband Dezi Arnaz.
No temptation to surrender to the difficulties dictated by Covid during filming the series. We shot in Australia in the middle of the pandemic. We were like in a bubble, I also had my family with me. The advantage was being very focused on the work, a rather unique thing, usually the set was coming and going, instead it was a full immersion for everyone. Especially for her. On set, I only responded as if I were Masha. I wanted to give off a calm and therapeutic energy, I approached people and put my hand on their heart, and I held theirs in mine. Like a real guru.
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