'It's a show that I wish I had before I started high school.' –sophialillis
she carves a space for herself as a conduit for characters who carry the burden of trauma through the storylines they experience. Her latest project, the comic-inspired series,In Sophia’s’ starring role as Sydney Novak in, she plays a teen attempting to survive high school in the wake of her father’s suicide. Her mother is an additional source of conflict, through her barbed criticisms of Sydney, we see a human, imperfect expression of her own grief.
For Sophia, the emergence of Sydney’s superpowers exists alongside the other events of her life, in the same world. “I feel like all of that is just one of her many, many troubles in her process of growing up. That's what it's like growing up, figuring out who you are, and what you want to be and who you like, who don't like and all that sort of stuff, all meshes together and [her superpowers] are just one of them.
It’s this element that Lillis loved so much about portraying Sydney. “I loved her. She’s had all this thrown at her and I always feel so bad for her because she always tries to do her best and get through it by herself, and it’s inspiring, Sophia says.“Even though it never goes the way she wants it to, I really relate to her. And that's how I act in that sense, what I put of myself in that character, that's me if that was in her place.
Sydney’s relationship with her power itself is similarly realistic, as she realizes how her emotional triggers, control and lack of control of her anger, set off the largely unwanted explosions of power she experiences. “That kind of anger was something that she couldn't really control. She always says ‘I don't know why I'm angry all the time,’ and ‘I'm trying so hard to control it.’ It’s what makes her more human.
“It’s something that I really wanted to portray because it's a show that I wish I had before I started high school,” Sophia says. This is what I think high school is like—you know, besides the supernatural.”
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