In the Prime Video sci-fi series 'The Power,' girls and women gain the ability to electrocute at will. With that power comes liberation and vengeance, revolution and chaos.
Toni Collette has been on a tear. Touching down in Los Angeles briefly to discuss her role in “The Power,” she has been doing little other than “working, traveling with my kids and being perpetually jet-lagged everywhere.” She hopes at some point to find the time to finish watching the first season of the Prime Video sci-fi series, in which she stars as Seattle Mayor Margot Cleary-Lopez, and to read the novel by Naomi Alderman upon which it’s based.
“The Power” posits the simplest of questions: What if women didn’t ever have to be afraid anymore? As Margot says in the opening moments, “We never dared to imagine it. A world that was built for us.” It starts with a spark, created from an organ called a skein that previously lay dormant, that gives girls, and then women, the power to electrocute at will. With that power comes liberation and vengeance, revolution and chaos.
“The Power” branches out in stories around the world, as “electric organ discharge,” allows females to rise up against their oppressors everywhere from Saudi Arabia to Alabama. In Seattle, Margot fights for the rights of the newly empowered, against the efforts of a hostile governor to remove them from society. The fight finds its way to her own home as well, as her husband, Rob , reels from her political machinations, and son Matty finds solace with online conspiracy theorists.
Collette is direct and straightforward, eager to discuss “The Power’s” themes. “It’s really interesting how in the show and in life, somebody else coming into their power becomes a threat to particularly men and their power. But surely if we empower each other, it’s a better world. It’s not about domination, it’s about balance.”The discussion of women’s bodily autonomy is eerily timely.
That’s why she took the job, even though she had almost no time for it. Most of the series had been shot long before Collette came on. Margot was initially played by
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