Five-time Oscar winner has finally unfurled his big-budget streaming series debut, . The psychological thriller, starring fellow Oscar winners and Kevin Kline, received its first press screenings Wednesday in Italy at the . The director and his acclaimed cast then met the media Thursday on the Lido to discuss the show’s creation and themes.
Told in seven chapters, the Apple Studios series is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Renée Knight. The ensemble cast is filled out by Sacha Baron Cohen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George, Hoyeon and Indira Varma as the narrator. “I read the book and it immediately triggered a film in my mind, but at that time I didn’t know how to make that film,” said Cuarón, explaining why he chose to adapt Knight’s book as a series.
“Because the film I was seeing was way too long. It was years later that I had the idea that maybe this could work in a longer form. It’s a format that I admire because I mean incredible artists, they have played with the form — from Fassbender to David Lynch to Kieślowski.
So that was the point of departure.” ‘s official summary reads: “Acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett) built her reputation revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others. When she receives a novel from an unknown author, she is horrified to realize she is now the main character in a story that exposes her darkest secrets.
As Catherine races to uncover the w.