11 on AMC+, with new episodes debuting weekly.
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The six-part series premieres Thursday, Nov. It’s one of the many pieces that make up who she is.” Edmonds definitely brings that young, lead-with-your-feelings attitude. “People my age and the generation below me, we’re more comfortable talking about our sexuality. “She represents a whole new way of thinking,” Hale says. “But I knew it was bad enough for her to want to start a new life.”Īnd while Hale has “only dated very cute boys” in her past roles, Edmonds is sexually fluid, one of the many aspects of her character that the actress finds refreshing. “I knew from the beginning that she was literally running away from something, but I didn’t know what it was until partway through filming the season,” Hale says. I’m blown away that people can really do this for a living and compartmentalize everything, then go home to their families at night.”Īs the mystery unravels, so too do the men and women working desperately to solve it, leading to some surprising reveals about Hale’s newbie character. “But it definitely starts to take a toll. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime case, and it’s one of her first, so she really hit the jackpot,” Hale says of her character, DC Lake Edmonds. The plot thickens when the killer releases a follow-up list of future victims, one that includes Lloyd-Hughes’ character, DS Nathan Rose.
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And this show has all of that, but what sets it apart is this really dark humor that British people do quite well.”īased on Daniel Cole’s 2017 novel, Ragdoll stars Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Thalissa Teixeira and Hale as a trio of investigators tasked with tracking down a serial killer who mixes and matches his victims’ various appendages to create one big - you guessed it - ragdoll. “I’m the the first person to watch these types of shows.
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“I knew that when I stepped into another TV show, it would have to be something drastically different, something that got me super pumped-up creatively,” Hale tells TVLine. Lucy Hale‘s new AMC+ thriller Ragdoll is exactly the kind of nightmare fodder that would keep Aria Montgomery - or any of Hale’s previous TV characters - up at night. TVLine Items: LEGO Masters Renewed, Discovery of Witches Premiere and More Was Big Leap Death Abrupt? The Hotter NCIS: Hawai'i Couple? Does Succession Girlfriend Have Shiv Vibe? And More Qs I'm older now and I put a lot more work into it than I did when I was a teenager. "I think, if anything, I'm constantly growing and evolving and learning something new from every job and experience. "Now I'm like, what seems the most challenging? I'm looking to try different things and take on roles that I haven't taken on before ," she says. Hale didn't initially intend to be an act ress – she moved to L A at the age of 15 to get a record contract, but she began taking acting more seriously. It's still her favourite horror, but i s followed closely by classics such as The Shining, Halloween and Friday the 13th, as well as the Saw franchise.
Hale was a fan of the genre from a young age, ever since her grandmother let her watch The Exorcist when she was 7. And because of that, it feels much scarier. "When fans go to see Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, they're going to see this situation that, except for the island where wishes come true, feels very grounded, it feels very real. "The reason this is a Blumhouse film is that we try to focus on character and drama and story – anything scary is organic to the storytelling and to the dramatic arcs of the characters ," Blum says.
When fans go to see Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, they're going to see this situation that, except for the island where wishes come true, feels very grounded, it feels very real.