Actor Lily Gladstone, an Oscar nominee this 12 months for “Killers of the Flower Moon” and a graduate of Mountlake Terrace Excessive Faculty, stars within the new Hulu restricted sequence “Below the Bridge,” which begins streaming April 17. The sequence, based mostly on the 2005 true-crime guide by Rebecca Godfrey, examines the 1997 dying of Reena Virk, a Vancouver Island teen who in 1997 went to a celebration and by no means returned residence. Quite a few native youngsters had been accused of her homicide, in a case that gained nationwide prominence.
Within the sequence, Gladstone performs police officer Cam Bentland, who whereas investigating the crime re-connects with author Godfrey (performed by Riley Keough), who’s visiting her hometown of Victoria, B.C., to do analysis for a novel and turns into drawn into the circle of teenagers. (Bentland is a personality created for the sequence; the real-life Godfrey, who additionally wrote the novel “The Torn Skirt,” died in 2022 however labored with author/director Quinn Shephard for a number of years to adapt “Below the Bridge” for tv.)
Gladstone, who was solid within the sequence in 2022, instructed Deadline in an interview that each one concerned with “Below the Bridge” took pains to not sensationalize its true-crime subject. “Lots of occasions, the human factor, notably the individuals who suffered probably the most are those who get erased,” she mentioned. “The factor that occurred to them turns into a sensationalized factor for the media after which it turns into one thing for consumption.” It was essential, Gladstone famous, to incorporate “the voices of the household and what their expertise was with the media.”
Later this 12 months, Gladstone can be seen within the unbiased characteristic movie “Fancy Dance,” opening in cinemas June 21 and streaming on Apple TV+ beginning June 28. She can also be the narrator and govt producer of the documentary “Convey Them Dwelling,” a couple of group of Blackfeet tribal members searching for to ascertain a wild buffalo herd on their ancestral territory. The movie will display at SIFF Might 16 and Might 18 at SIFF Cinema Uptown; for data, see siff.web.
