English-Spanish actress Ana Mulvoy-Ten was relatively unknown to American audiences when she joined “American Crime’s” cast of otherwise recurring players for its third (and final) season. But it didn’t take long for fans of creator John Ridley’s ABC anthology series to take notice of her. With hopeful, doe eyes and a childlike wonder for the simple beauties of life, Mulvoy-Ten’s Shae Reese was a shockingly optimistic — if somewhat naïve — pregnant teenager stuck in the world of sex trafficking.
“John had said to me that he didn’t want her to be this angry teenage girl,” Mulvoy-Ten says. “I think that it just makes her so much more interesting. It’s so much easier to just play that girl who was abused and she’s angry and bitter about it. But actually, Shae is a little bit of a dreamer. I wanted there to be some innocence and a little bit of hope there...
“John had said to me that he didn’t want her to be this angry teenage girl,” Mulvoy-Ten says. “I think that it just makes her so much more interesting. It’s so much easier to just play that girl who was abused and she’s angry and bitter about it. But actually, Shae is a little bit of a dreamer. I wanted there to be some innocence and a little bit of hope there...
- 6/5/2017
- by Whitney Friedlander
- Variety - TV News
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