‘Orphan Black: Echoes’ Star Krysten Ritter on Her Character’s Mysterious Past: ‘She Is an Experiment Gone Wrong’
24.06.2024 - 03:33
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Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the series premiere of “Orphan Black: Echoes,” now streaming on AMC+. The series premiere of AMC and BBC America’s “Orphan Black: Echoes” offers only a few concrete things about Lucy, the enigmatic character played by Krysten Ritter. First and foremost, she’s innately resourceful, which comes in handy when she wakes up with no memory of who she is, with a kind but mysterious woman (Keeley Hawes) interrogating her about anything she might know. After a violent reaction, she MacGyvers her way out of the containment facility where she’s being held and right past a few clues that suggest her origins may lie in a slimy vat of goo.
But before Lucy can investigate, she goes like a thief in the night, popping up two years later as a field-hand living the quiet life in the country. She rents a mobile home on the land farm of a single father named Jack (Avan Jogia), with whom she shares a deeply loving relationship that they keep secret from his deaf daughter, Charlie (Zariella Langford-Haughton). We learn Lucy has a gun close by at all times, and has a pathological habit of avoiding any talk of her past — she also loves SpaghettiOs straight from the can.
That’s about all we get, until things go south fast. “I thought this was such an interesting acting challenge to take on a role that has no backstory, and no memories,” Ritter tells Variety. “She doesn’t feel the way she is supposed to feel, she doesn’t know who she is and she is completely on the run.” That last part is made abundantly clear when a man arrives at her trailer and tries to subdue her.
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