Nine Perfect Strangers: Everything You Need To Know About All Stars in Prime Video’s Series
Available from August 20 on Prime Video the first three episodes (the next 5 will be one a week) of Nine Perfect Strangers, with an all-star cast led by Nicole Kidman. We tell you everything you need to know to enjoy it to the fullest.
The first three episodes (out of 8) of the prestigious Nine Perfect Strangers miniseries arrived on Prime Video on August 20: from August 27 we will see one a week, until the end, as it deserves for a show that takes its time and is not suitable for classic binge watching. We have been talking about it for a while, first of all because it is a product and partly written by Mr. Michelle Pfeiffer, or David E. Kelley (here with John Henry Buttleworth), one of the leading names in the American entertainment industry, behind to huge hits like LA Law , Boston Legal and the most recent Big Little Lies , Mr. Mercedes ,The Undoing and the upcoming The Lincoln Lawyer . This is the third collaboration between Kelley and Nicole Kidman, who plays the key role in the story, and which seems to have remained in the character throughout the shoot, to keep the rest of the cast on their toes, as Masha does in the series. But let’s see in detail everything there is to know before diving into the vision of Nine Perfect Strangers, a small guide to the fundamental elements of the series.
The Story Of Nine Perfect Strangers
The story sees a group of 9 characters, very different from each other and unknown to each other, who go to an ultra-luxury wellness center in a dream place, extremely selective, which promises to revive its customers in just ten days. . To manage the center, from the attractive name of Tranquillum House, is a mysterious woman of Russian origin, with the appearance of a wood elf and with a dark criminal past behind her, Masha, assisted by three faithful helpers, the couple Delilah and Yao , and Zoe. After a not entirely pleasant first impact between them, the guests of the resort will begin to have doubts about how to care for the place.
The Book And The Author
That of Nine Perfect Strangers is not an original story but is taken from the novel of Australian writer Liane Moriarty, published in 2018. Moriarty is also the author of the book that gave birth to the Big Little Lies. In film development, with Blake Lively as the expected protagonist, is another of her novels, The Husband’s Secret, from 2013. As of 2004, Liane has published eight highly successful novels, many of which have entered the top of the list. best-selling New York Times. The ninth will be released in September, entitled “Apples Never Fall”. Six have also been published in Italy, included“Nine perfect strangers” , from Mondadori. Moriarty is also the author of three books for children, the first of which, “Petronella and space waste”, from 2009, was published by Piemme Junior. In an interview with the Guardian, the author said she was snubbed for a long time in her homeland and was discovered in America, where her books were an immediate success. No prophet at home, as they say.
The Characters Of Nine Perfect Strangers And Their Prestigious Interpreters
The strength of this miniseries are obviously the actors. Leaving aside for too much fame the star of cinema and TV Nicole Kidman, increasingly present on the small screen, in the role of the lady and godmother of Tranquillum , the enigmatic Masha Dmitrichenko, let’s move on to her lucky (?) Guests .
Frances Welty is a middle-aged woman, writer of romance novels, in crisis with work and life. As if that weren’t enough, she was also the victim of an online sentimental scam. To interpret it with irresistible charisma is the great Melissa McCarthy, an extraordinary comic actress who has proven to be able to interpret even more serious roles. From Bridesmaids to Original Copy (she was nominated for an Oscar for both), from Mike and Molly to The Queens of Crime, the future Ursula of the Little Mermaid in live action is always a guarantee. In Nine Perfect Strangers he interacts primarily withBobby Cannavale , with whom he has already worked four times. In one of the next episodes, we will also see her husband, the actor Ben Falcone.
Bobby Cannavale, in fact, plays the wiry, burly and bearded Tony Hogburn , former football star, forced to retire after a serious accident and addicted to painkillers. Sarcastic and grumpy, initially he is the one who has the most difficulty adapting and mainly targets Frances. Cannavale’s performanceis up to its best, and there are several. We remember him on TV in the role of the psychopathic gangster Gyp Rosetti in Boardwalk Empire (Emmy award) and, among his many, for the characters in Vynil, Nurse Jackie, Will & Grace (his second Emmy) and Mr. Robot, and al cinema in Blue Jasmine,Tonya, The Irishman and with longtime friend John Turturro, Jesus Rolls.
The mixed and young couple, Ben and Tamara Chandler, arrive in Tranquillum in a yellow Lamborghini to save their troubled marriage. He is the emerging Melvin Gregg, who even appeared in the Asylum film Sharknado 3 . He is most famous as an influencer on Vine. Among his series Sexless, Class, Freakish and Snowfall. She, Instagram diva, insecure and obsessed with her appearance and plastic surgery (in the series she is made up “as if”) is the fantastic Australian actress Samara Weaving, revealed with the hilarious splatter Until death do us part. On TV we enjoyed her in Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Picnic at Hanging Rock and in the Netflix Hollywood miniseries. Her uncle Hugo Weaving’s artistic geniuses flow through her.
Lars Lee, the mysterious gay character recently single, is played by Luke Evans, a Welsh actor who certainly needs no introduction. He has an almost twenty-year career in cinema and on TV, we remember him as the Bard of The Hobbit – The desolation of Smaug and The battle of the five armies, for example, as the Vlad of Dracula Untold and again in Fast & Furious 6 and 7, like Gaston in Beauty and the Beast and on TV in The Alienist.
The Marconi family, of clear Italian origin, has three members: father, mother and daughter arrive in Tranquillum thanks to a generous discount. He, Napoleon, is a somewhat clumsy and seemingly exuberant teacher, his wife Heather experiences the consequences of the trauma of her son’s death more blatantly, as does her young twin, Zoe. Napoleon is that great (in every sense) actor who is Michael Shannon, Oscar nominee for Revolutionary Road and Nocturnal Animals, who has appeared in very popular and arthouse films, from his 1993 debut in I Start Over, to William’s Bug. Friedkin andHonor thy father and mother of Sidney Lumet, from Zod of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in The shape and Dinner with murder – Knives Out. In Boardwalk Empire, his role as former agent Nelson Van Alden is memorable. Also on TV in Waco and La tamburina, Shannon is a character actor with the stuff of the protagonist. His wife Heather is Australian actress Asher Keddie, who has had a predominantly television career since the mid-1980s, earning the nickname “Golden Girl of Australian Television”. Her appearances are few in the cinema, we may have seen her in X-Men Origins – Wolverine. The daughter Zoe is instead the New Yorker Grace Van Patten, who made her debut at the age of 10 in The Sopranos, while at the cinema she played Marriage with the ex and Under The Silver Lake .
Then there is the last single of the group, Carmel, abandoned by her husband with four children, who has problems with self-esteem and anger control. To bring it to life is Regina Hall, who many will remember as a regular presence in the first four films of the Scary Movie series. She then had a regular role in Law & Order – Los Angeles, appeared in Black-ish and in the cinema we saw her in The Journey of the Girls and Shaft.
Maya’s assistants are three: Delilah is played by Tiffany Boone, in the cinema in Beautiful Creatures and on TV in the series with Al Pacino Hunters, in the role of Roxy Jones. He also had a major role in the beautiful Irish series The Following, starring Jamie Dornan and Gillian Anderson. Yao is Manny Jacinto, a Filipino-Canadian actor who has been active since 2012 and has appeared in many TV series, including The Good Place, Trese and The New Cherry Taste. At the cinema we will see him in Top Gun: Maverick. Last but not least, Zoe Terakis is Glory. Terakis is a nonbinary actor and activist from the Australian LGBTQ community who played a transgender man in the Wentworth series.
A Dream Location, Among Woods, Cliffs And Natural Pools
Australian the book, like the protagonist, it was necessary that the setting did not change even if, in theory, the story in the series takes place in Northern California. Nine Perfect Strangers was filmed in full pandemic in New South Wales, in the so-called Northern Rivers area, in the famous Byron Bay. Filming, after 14 days of quarantine and swabs for the actors, took place from 20 August to 21 December 2020.
But what, ultimately, is Nine Perfect Strangers?
After the first three episodes, and for those who have not read the book, Nine Perfect Strangers is a bit of a mysterious object: a satire on the health habits that were once called New Age and which according to those who believe cure all ills? Parody of alternative therapeutic practices? Reflection on individual suffering in a world that sees us increasingly hurt, angry and confused? Thriller? The title seems to refer to Agatha Christie atmospheres: of these nine perfect strangers, will someone end up like her ten little Indians? To find out, alas, we just have to wait for the end of the series.
