Jessica Kourkounis/AMCĭispatches From Elsewhere, an anthological miniseries that will tell different stories with each season, begins its first season with characters in search of a purpose. No pressure.” How Dispatches From Elsewhere captures the occasional alienation of transness Simone loves art, and it becomes a major part of her story. ‘What do we do? Do we just do it?’ And Jason was, like, ‘What?’ He’s kissed every A-list actress under the sun! Okay. I was a funny character actress, and I never had to think about being pretty on camera or being intimate on camera or kissing on camera,” she says. “Usually, trans women are side characters. And because both Lindley and Simone are trans, she’s making history by default. Though her character, Simone, is not the series’ protagonist (that honor goes to Peter, played by Segel, who created the show and wrote and directed several episodes), she is his primary love interest. Her role as the romantic female lead of a miniseries about four people drawn into a mysterious, surreal game playing out on the streets of Philadelphia could have felt undercooked, but she brings the character to vibrant life.Īnd Lindley’s presence on Dispatches From Elsewhere is hugely significant. That she’s playing a romantic lead is impressive in and of itself that she brings so much presence and spark to the show is even more striking.
I’m the hot girl.’ I was not prepared for that.”ĭispatches From Elsewhere is just the 12th role Lindley has ever played on camera. “It took me a second, and then I was, like, ‘Oh my God. How are men going to watch this? No one is going to watch this! Who is the hot girl?’” she recalls. There is no young, hot girl on this show.
This is going to be the best!’ And then I’m looking around, and I’m, like, ‘This is peculiar. “I was looking around at the cast, really feeling myself. She walked in, ready for her first lead role in anything ever, and found herself sitting with Jason Segel, with André Benjamin, with Sally Field.įirst, she freaked out inside.
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The very first time Eve Lindley was in a room with all of her costars on the AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere was for a sexual harassment training seminar.
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