‘Undone’ Co-Creator And Writer Kate Purdy On Exploring Generational Trauma And The “Empowerment In Self-Realization”
16.06.2022 - 19:17
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After dealing with her own mental health, Kate Purdy decided to channel her experiences through animation for Amazon Prime’s Undone. Along with fellow co-creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Purdy created a story of generational trauma and redemption.
Undone follows Alma (Rosa Salazar), a woman who survives a near-fatal car crash and discovers she has the ability to manipulate time and reality. Season 1 focuses on Alma trying to find the truth behind her father Jacob’s (Bob Odenkirk) death and save him. Season 2 takes place in a new timeline after she succeeds, and now finds that her sister Becca (Angelique Cabral) has a similar ability. Together they try to help their mother Camila (Constance Marie) who is hiding something from them.
DEADLINE: Where did the idea for Undone come from?
KATE PURDY: I had a mental breakdown in 2012. I was in a really difficult marriage and was trying to figure out my way through it and did a lot of soul searching and self-realization to come to understand myself better and how I was contributing to the difficulties in the marriage. A lot of that happened because I actually had physical manifestations and I saw many different doctors, but it was a woman in the Palisades who was an Ayurvedic practitioner that helped. I found that the treatments were healing me physically, but also emotionally and spiritually. I kind of felt like I was receiving guidance from an unseen world, from an ancestry, from a grandmother coming through and saying like, “The greatest gift we can give you is to break you down in this way and set you on a better path in this lifetime, and we’re here to help even though it feels like suffering.”
I had been a TV writer for many years before that happened and I took time off from
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