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Put Maya Erskine in Everything
PEN15 introduced her as a gonzo comedic talent. Mr. & Mrs. Smith makes a convincing case for her as a rom-com lead.
After failing separately at other ambitions, they pair up on a gig working for a mysterious corporation that sends them on missions to places like Lake Como and gifts them a truly enviable New York brownstone decked out with everything from expensive art to a high-end “water bar” (a kind of seltzer machine invented for the show). “Especially being a parent,” she says, “I don’t know if I have the energy to do that.” She’s okay with two out of three, though: She just turned in a draft of an HBO series based on Leïla Slimani’s book The Perfect Nanny, in which, if it’s green-lit, Erskine would star across from Nicole Kidman, whose producing clout is helping get it made. Erskine has been thinking intently about what an adaptation owes to the original material — she compares her work on this to the film version of Notes on a Scandal, which does its own riff on a novel — as well as to actual true-crime events, like the 2012 murders in New York that inspired the book.
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