Every year, a number of actors seemingly come out of nowhere to captivate viewers with indelible performances. Here are three of this season's breakouts.
Every year, television’s cavalcade of familiar faces makes room for a handful of actors who seemingly come out of nowhere to captivate viewers with indelible performances. This season’s breakout characters include a reckless daughter, a witty drug lord and a hunky younger brother. The Envelope checked in with the actors behind those performances to find out what makes them tick.
Showrunner Lee Sung Jin’s road-rage dramedy casts Mazino as a buff slacker who falls in love with Amy , the archenemy of his older brother, Danny . To wrap his mind and body around the sibling rivalry, Mazino hit the basketball court with Yeun. “We’re bumping into each other in these intense one-on-ones trying to score and one-up each other,” Mazino says. “On the final play, I did a layup and Steven fouled me but I got it in.
As it turned out, Merritt Wever, who portrays Clare’s cancer-doomed mother with “incredible warmth,” inspired Pidgeon to embody sorrow, rage and bitterness with heart-rending conviction. Pidgeon says, “When your mother figure for the past three months — Merritt — has two weeks left to live, a lot of the emotional heavy lifting sort of does itself.”
Pidgeon grew up in Michigan, attended Carnegie Mellon University, studied acting at Drama Centre London and appeared for two seasons on Prime Video’s stranded-on-a-desert island adventure “The Wilds.” Once she secured the “Beautiful” gig, Pidgeon took workshops with showrunner Liz Tigelaar, director Rachel Lee Goldenberg and key cast members.
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