Actor Odessa Young details the eerie timing of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic thriller as the COVID-19 pandemic unraveled worldwide
She’s starring in Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic thriller, The Stand.
And on Sunday, Odessa Young detailed how her role of Frannie Goldsmith in the nine-part series prepared her for the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Australian actress finished filming with the cast in Vancouver in early 2020 when similar occurrences started playing out in front of her.
‘It was just weird, there was something kind of cosmic about it’: Australian actress Odessa Young (pictured), 23, has detailed how her role of Frannie Goldsmith in Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic thriller, The Stand, prepared her for the COVID-19 pandemic
‘It was just weird, there was something kind of cosmic about it. I remember we all stated making jokes that CBS had designed the pandemic as a marketing tool for the fans,’ the 23-year-old said in an interview with The Herald Sun’s Insider.
However, as cases globally started to increase, Odessa realised the pandemic was not a stunt and she was ‘expecting the worst’.
‘It didn’t get as bad as I expected because I was expecting, you know, the outcome of The Stand,’ she told the publication.
‘But in terms of preparation, I guess any film makes you prepared to be isolated because you’re working all the time and working ridiculous hours and don’t get to have a social life.’
”It didn’t get as bad as I expected’: Odessa said in an interview with The Herald Sun’s Insider on Sunday that the reality hasn’t been as bad as what Stephen King wrote for The Stand
Odessa stars in The Stand alongside Whoopi Goldberg (playing Mother Abagail), James Marsden (Stu Redman) and Alexander Skarsgard (Randall Flagg).
Stephen’s novel was originally adapted into a four-episode mini-series by CBS in 1994, starring Gary Sinise as Stu Redman, Ruby Dee as Mother Abigail and Jamey Sheridan as Randall Flagg.
At 1,152 pages, it is the longest novel in Stephen’s illustrious career – selling more than 4.5 million copies worldwide. It has also been named one of the best novels of all-time by Time, Rolling Stone and the BBC.
Who else is starring in it? Odessa appears in The Stand alongside Whoopi Goldberg playing Mother Abagail, James Marsden as Stu Redman and Alexander Skarsgard portraying Randall Flagg. Pictured with Fordon Cornier as Joe and Amber heard as Nadine Cross on The Stand
The Stand was created by Josh Boone (The New Mutants), who directed all nine episodes, and Ben Cavell, based on Stepen’s novel, with the author himself writing a brand new coda for the series.
The series premiered on December 17 on the CBS All Access streaming service.
New episodes will drop weekly on subsequent Thursdays in Australia on Amazon Prime Video.
Rising star: The series premiered on December 17 on the CBS All Access streaming service, and on Amazon Prime Video in Australia