Motion! Cynthia Nixon, Ian Somerhalder and extra TV stars have taken on multiple accountability whereas filming their reveals.
Nixon revealed in October 2021 that she directed an episode of And Simply Like That, the Intercourse and the Metropolis revival set to debut on HBO Max later that 12 months. “It’s been an entire dream to work with my beloved co-stars and crew on this new position,” she captioned a celebratory Instagram publish on the time. “I’ve actually by no means felt so supported in my life. (And don’t fear, Miranda remains to be going to be within the episode — it was surreal to do each without delay!) #AndJustLikeThat.”
Costar Kristin Davis commented that it was “a lot enjoyable” to see Nixon take cost on set. “Easy and insightful and thrilling . Hopefully the primary of many….?,” she added in an Instagram Story.
The actresses beforehand labored collectively on the unique HBO sequence for six seasons from 1998 to 2004. They joined OG star Sarah Jessica Parker for the revival, which follows the trio of pals as they navigate New York Metropolis of their 50s.
Whereas it was Nixon’s first foray into directing her personal work, the profession transfer has been fashionable amongst loads of different sequence regulars. Somerhalder took on directing whereas starring on The Vampire Diaries — as did his onscreen brother, Paul Wesley.
“I’m actually grateful that I get to be with my fellow actors who’re like my household, and actually dig deep and attempt to discover these moments of their characters that imply one thing to them, not simply from a directorial place. That is my present, too, and I need each body of it to be nice,” Somerhalder instructed Collider in 2016. “I’m simply tremendous grateful to the studio, the community, to Julie [Plec] and Kevin [Williamson], and to the blokes who made all of this occur.”
The Anomaly actor acknowledged that creating greater than 20 new episodes every season was a “formidable” job for everybody who was concerned within the course of.
“With 22 episodes, you’re capturing nearly 200 days a 12 months. How do you preserve crew morale, integrity and power at that stage, at that pace, on a regular basis?” he continued. “I feel we’ve executed a fairly rattling good job. This present, even supposing it’s a teen vampire cleaning soap opera, is likely one of the finest trying reveals on TV. I watch different tv reveals, which might be large tv reveals which might be very giant in measurement and that do nicely, and no less than our present appears to be like so stunning as a result of we work so exhausting at making it really feel like a movie. It’s a movie expertise, and that’s what you need.”
Somerhalder was notably grateful for the chance to see a unique aspect of the sequence he labored on for thus a few years. For Sophia Bush, attending to direct one of many closing episodes of One Tree Hill was additionally an emotional milestone.
“I burst into tears and acknowledged what an incredible honor that was to be trusted with that,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter in 2012. “Every little thing was actually vital and all the pieces was actually priceless. As a result of I knew that it was the final probability that I used to be going to have to inform these tales and to honor these characters and to actually present their relationships. It simply felt supremely vital.”
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