'Astrid and Lilly Save The World' stars on new plus-sized heroine series
Two unlikely heroines rise to the occasion in the new Syfy series “Astrid & Lilly Save the World.”
Premiering Jan. 26 , the series follows high school best buds Astrid and Lilly , quirky outcasts often bullied by their classmates for being plus-sized. When they accidentally open a portal to a monster dimension, they have to rise up to save the world while also navigating crushes, homework, irritating siblings, and other mundane horrors of high school.
“When I got the audition, I was really excited about it because one of the things it was saying was the girls are supposed to be a little bit bigger – plus-sized people,” Morrison, told The Post. , really, in any casting call. You don’t really see leading female roles with rolls. And the fact that they were also going to save the world – I was excited to see bigger girls saving the world. That was really cool to me.
“The show is really about friendship and trust and growing,” said Aucoin, a singer/songwriter and a newcomer to acting . “It was an extreme learning curve. I had never been on a set before and didn’t even know what a mark was.”“Just knowing that she was dealing with similar sorts of insecurities that I dealt with growing up was really appealing to me. The character is so vulnerable and I got to kind of live in that mentality for a little while.
For Morrison, she also found Astrid to be relatable – particularly because she believes in herself. But she also looked to a few other famous TV heroines. from ‘Law & Order: SVU,’” she said. “Because she wants to be a super badass, and she also really likes to solve crimes and figure out what people are doing and what kind of puzzle is going on. I also drew a lot frombecause she was going through teen stuff but also dealing with monsters.
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