Edited image of Jennifer Esposito during Fresh Kills interview
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Jennifer Esposito is providing a unique and freshly feminine perspective on the mafia genre in Fresh Kills.
Alongside Esposito, the ensemble Fresh Kills cast includes Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin's Emily Bader as Rose, Hellraiser's Odessa A'zion as Connie, Tulsa King's Domenick Lombardozzi as Joe, Annabella Sciorra, Nicholas Cirillo, Stelio Savante and Franco Maicas.
Jennifer Esposito: Well, I grew up around families like this, seeing this, running from girls like Odessa Connie. It always stayed with me, like, "Why are they so angry?" The violence that I grew up around from the women was something that I really couldn't explain, it was a lot more brutal than that of the guys, and it really did stay with me. So, it was all the way back then, and I had always wanted to be a filmmaker.
And I thought, "Why is that?" These women, you usually see in these movies a woman comes in, and you'll see her arm put something on the table, the guys all sitting doing business, or you'll see some woman on the pole in the background, naked and dancing. But you really never see it through her lens, and I just thought it was time to flip the tables a little bit.
A friend of mine called me, and she said, "You have to watch this kid on some show," and I went, and I thought I was gonna watch an episode, and I watched the whole thing, and by the end of the thing, I was like, "That's her, I need a meeting with her immediately." Great story, I met Odessa on Zoom. She was late to the meeting, she popped in and literally like this , "What the f--k, this script is great!" And I was like, "Oh my god, that's Connie.
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