The show’s creator and its stars and supporting cast talk about bringing the 1979 to television as a limited series.
Actress Mallori Johnson first encountered the work of writerwhen she read “Fledgling,” a novel about a young Black vampire. It was the summer before she left home for the Julliard School in New York City.
Sheria Irving stars as Olivia in “Kindred,” the FX network limited series based on Octavia Butler’s novel of the same name. Sophina Brown stars as Sarah in “Kindred,” the FX network limited series based on Octavia Butler’s novel of the same name. “Kindred” showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who adapted “Kindred” for FX on Hulu, where it premieres Dec. 13, says that lack of experience might have mattered – except Johnson’s audition immediately made it clear that the part belonged to her.
And in an addition to the 1979 novel, she meets there her mother Olivia, played by Sheria Irving, who apparently had experienced the same phenomenon years earlier. “Of course, I could not get arrested,” he says, laughing. But he didn’t give up, and in 2016, the FX network expressed interest, and after years of struggling with seemingly no end in sight, “Kindred” suddenly was a go.in San Marino to find out as much as he could about her thoughts and process as she wrote “Kindred.”was this very well-kept secret amongst certain kinds of readers,” Jacobs-Jenkins says.
“I’m a trained actor, I went to Yale. I should be able to rip it off,” Irving says of the figurative bandages over her character’s trauma. “But I found myself sometimes really sucked into the gravitas, the pain that my ancestors felt. Even being on the land , there was a palpable sense of spirit there.”
Despite their characters living lives and benefiting from the enslavement of others, both actors say they worked to make Thomas and Margaret Weylin fully formed people to challenge viewers to consider who they might have been and what they would have done in the Weylins’ places.
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