One day contributions Kristen Wiig to the mental health of the world’s population. his appearances ‘Saturday Night Live’ (in the form of impossible parodies or characters such as Gilly, The Target Lady, and others) or her work as her heroine ‘My best friend’s wedding’ These are very highly effective anxiolytics. After a few years away, it’s back in a big way. ‘Palm Royale’ (AppleTV+Starting from Wednesday the 20th)A sixties scenic comedy about a woman who invites herself to everything and has her sights set on the most exclusive club in the world.
In the late sixties, Maxine Simmons (Wiig), a former beauty pageant who was held regularly in Tennessee Woman desperate to be part of something, ideally the high society of Palm Beach, Florida. To do this, he doesn’t hesitate to climb walls and try to befriend Evelyn Rollins at said club (Allison Janney), the self-proclaimed queen bee of this place, or Dinah Donahue (Leslie Bibb), wife of the American ambassador to Luxembourg; Women who spend their time drinking cocktails, sharing rumors, and searching for the best dresses to wear to fundraising parties for good causes. Watching Simmons/Wiig fumble around this hoop is an absolute joy.
“Wiig was our number one, if not our only, choice,” the series creator explains via video call. Abe Sylviaformer screenwriter and producer ‘Nurse Jackie’, ‘Event’ anyone ‘Dead to me’. “She’s the absolute best. Whenever I’m upset, I perform skits like ‘Liza Minnelli is trying to turn off the lamp’ or ‘Ann-Margret is trying to throw a piece of paper in the trash can’ and my mood immediately changes to ‘cheer up.’” With Wiig, Janney, and Bibb together we find the legend Carol Burnett (funny even in a coma) or Ricky Martin as a sly club waiter.
Keep the world away
The Palm Royale divas claim to care about important causes, but they don’t seem willing to change their lifestyles because the feminists they play (add and continue) want it that way. Laura Dern; A character named Linda Shaw was added to the cast created by. Juliet McDaniel for the novel on which the series is based. According to Sylvia, no one should hate our heroes because they look like Trump voters in the first place: “They’re fighting a civil war against their best instincts,” she says. “They all have something better, and they know it. In a way, they are trying to hold on to a lifestyle that never existed. Change is inevitable. Even if they try to keep the world away from them, it ends up happening to them.” truth. They continue to live in this world.
Of course, for a long time, with a few good episodes, they manage to ignore Nixon’s speeches about Vietnam, like Simon Pegg unknowingly walking towards doom in ‘Zombies Party’. Sylvia does not mention Edgar Wright as her main reference; photographer Ince Aarons, Portrait of the lifestyles of the American jet set between 1950 and 1980. “Most of his photographs were taken during the Vietnam War. Images of beautiful people doing beautiful things in beautiful places. And around him, off-screen, the world burns. What enables these images to survive as works of art is their absurdity, tragedy and tension. For me, they were capital while making this series, just like I love Almodóvar’s movies where he jumps from melodrama to tragedy to comedy or ‘camp’ with complete naturalness.“.
Connection to Old Hollywood
It’s worth taking a look at ‘Palm Royale’ just for the luxury of the setting, the dresses and the environment. “At Apple, they told us that if we were going to do this, we were going to do it right.” That didn’t mean shooting in Florida, though: “They left us there, so we had to recreate the whole thing in Los Angeles. Luckily, much of the city’s architecture is reminiscent of Palm Beach.” In the process, they created a delightful web of connections to the classic Hollywood legacy: “Dinah’s house, for example, that we saw in the pilot, was one of her houses. Howard Hughes. And in the seventh episode, Evelyn’s mansion was the home of: Yvette Mimieux. On the other hand, we recreated the Breakers Motel at the Biltmore hotel and The dance hall where the Cuban night is celebrated in the fourth episode is nothing but the same. [el Biltmore Bowl] Where the Oscars were first awarded in 1931“. Details that provide shine and legendaryness.