Bruna Papandrea On Growing Prime Video’s ‘The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart’; What It Will Take For ‘Big Little Lies’ Season 3 To Happen – Crew Call Podcast
14.08.2023 - 22:55
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Whenever a producer in recent times has exited their partnership with a star, quite often said producer’s output is not as robust.
It’s a very different situation for Bruna Papandrea, who after peeling off from Reese Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard Production Company, has been on quite a roll with such TV hits as HBO’s The Undoing, Netflix’s Anatomy of a Scandal, Luckiest Girl Alive, Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers and now the Prime Video limited series, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart based on Holly Ringland novel. This is all under Papandrea’s six-year old production banner, Made Up Stories, which is devoted to female-centric stories.
On today’s Crew Call, we talk with Papandrea about why she went solo with Made Up Stories, the genesis of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, and more.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows the story of the title protagonist. At age 9, she tragically loses her parents in a mysterious fire. She’s taken to live with her grandmother June (Sigourney Weaver) at Thornfield flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family’s past.
The series, which currently has four out of seven episodes dropped on Prime, is set against Australia’s wild natural landscape. In the first episode alone, there’s jaw dropping shots of burning cane. The series’ visual aesthetic brings to mind another Down Under-set classic and how its environment mirrors its characters’ arcs: the 1971 Nicolas Roeg directed feature, Walkabout (granted a sophisticated YA movie with very different themes than Lost Flowers of Alice Hart). Papandrea chats about her production output coming out of Australia, which teed up during the pandemic with the surprise local movie, The Dry, starring Eric Bana,