{"id":116510,"date":"2022-07-17T22:26:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T16:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/where-the-crawdads-sing-star-daisy-edgar-jones-on-playing-kya\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T22:27:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T16:57:03","slug":"where-the-crawdads-sing-star-daisy-edgar-jones-on-playing-kya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/where-the-crawdads-sing-star-daisy-edgar-jones-on-playing-kya\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Crawdads sing Star Daisy Edgar Jones on Playing Kya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The end of filming \u201cWhere the Crawdads Sing,\u201d actress Daisy Edgar-Jones\u2019 co-star Taylor John Smith commented on how Jones\u2019 book looked like it had been through a paper shredder.<\/p>\n

Based on the best-selling novel by Delia Owens and adapted by Reese Witherspoon\u2019s Hello Sunshine production company and Sony\u2019s 3000 Pictures, \u201cWhere the Crawdads Sing,\u201dThe story of Kya (Edgar Jones) is wrapped in layers of a coming-of-age story and a murder mystery. It chronicles the lessons Kya learns along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWell yeah, I read and reread and reread and reread and reread that book,\u201d Edgar-Jones told following Smith\u2019s comment. \u201cIt\u2019s such a beautiful book and it\u2019s so popular and loved by so many for a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Smith plays Tate Walker, Kya\u2019s first love interest, who grows up alongside her with the childhood connection to her brother Jodie (Logan Macrae). Kya\u2019s family abandons her to fend for herself, and as Tate and Kya grow up, they bump into each other by boat occasionally, sharing an awe and respect for the marsh where they spend most of their time.<\/p>\n

\u201cDelia has managed to paint this world so vividly. And this character is so timeless,\u201dEdgar-Jones spoke of Kya. \u201cIt was really helpful just coming to scenes and knowing your character\u2019s life was mapped out for you in a beautiful book. I think it would have been a disservice to not read it and have it there as a tool whenever we could.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several of the scenes that Tate and Kya share jump from the page onto the screen, like when Tate leads Kya back to her house the first time she goes out in her father\u2019s boat alone, and a later scene after they have gotten to know each other better and share a first kiss in the middle of a gust of wind carrying fall-colored leaves.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Olivia Newman is] such such a phenomenal director,\u201dSmith stated. \u201cAnd she had this beautiful thing that I\u2019ve never experienced before where she would have us do a scene and when she would give us directions, she would separate us and tell us our direction like it was a secret and so we\u2019d have to come back to the scene and do something really special that the other person didn\u2019t know about.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are more memorable scenes between Kya, Tate, and Tate. These include when Kya reads her first sentence loudly after Tate teaches her the alphabet. Birthday celebrations and joyous observations of the marsh animals, particularly birds.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the beginning, [Newman] was hands-on as far as character development. And she made sure we had all the necessities we needed, look-books, Mirren [Gordon-Crozier] designing our wardrobe and working with a dialect coach Francie Brown just so we had all these extra pieces,\u201dSmith went on. \u201cAnd she trusted us enough to let it go. So to have a leader like that, that that really brings you everything you need, and then lets you go play is kind of incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tate can relate to Kya\u2019s love of nature as well as her family situation in a way because he lost his mother and sister to a car accident, which he shares with Kya in a moment of sensitivity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a line in the book where Scupper, Tate\u2019s dad, is talking to him about what it means to be a man: \u2018A real man cries without shame, feels poetry in his heart, opera in his soul and then does what\u2019s necessary to protect a woman.\u2019 And having a father like that, who\u2019s clearly like invested in his child and wants the best for for his son was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tate\u2019s character serves as a foil to Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson), whose\u00a0romantic involvement with Kya and then sudden death taints Kya\u2019s reputation since she becomes a suspect in the investigation.<\/p>\n

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\u201cImplementing that into Tate kind of shaped his worldview about how to treat others, especially women. That being said, he is not perfect, he\u2019s not cookie cutter,\u201dSmith stated. \u201cHe does make a huge mistake that he ends up regretting for the rest of his life when he decides not to come back [from college] on the Fourth [of July]. I think he spends the rest of his life trying to make it up to Kya.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edgar-Jones quickly made a connection with Olivia Newman, explaining that their discussions of Kya felt like they were friends. \u201cwere both talking about a friend we were really fond of.\u201dEdgar-Jones, once she arrived on set, was enthusiastic about the prospect of making a movie together with a female director and cinematographer.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see [Newman] in that role and absolutely command that space and lead this big set of other brilliant women \u2014 a lot of our heads of department were women too. I feel like that was really exciting about a story about female empowerment, to have women empowered behind the camera. I think Livi is really special. She has such a kind of gentle, deep view of the world and I think really imbues the character and the film with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Edgar-Jones has made a habit of starring in somewhat dark book-to-screen adaptations like Hulu\u2019s \u201cUnder the Banner of Heaven\u201d \u201cNormal People,\u201d \u201cWhere the Crawdads Sing\u201dThis collection can be added to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I do need to do a light comedy because I\u2019ve played a lot of characters who are quite sad,\u201d Edgar-Jones said. \u201cThe way I tend to work is, I like the saying \u2018Take it seriously but wear it lightly.\u2019 I try and do that with all my roles where I do a huge amount of prep and I work really hard and they take it seriously in between action and cut, but also try and enjoy it and have fun and and not sit too long in a in a sad or heavy feeling because I think it\u2019s easier to jump in and out and to be open, to be playful if that makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The end of filming \u201cWhere the Crawdads Sing,\u201d actress Daisy Edgar-Jones\u2019 co-star Taylor John Smith commented on how Jones\u2019 book looked like it had been through a paper shredder. Based on the best-selling novel by Delia Owens and adapted by Reese Witherspoon\u2019s Hello Sunshine production company and Sony\u2019s 3000 Pictures, \u201cWhere the Crawdads Sing,\u201dThe story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":116511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1658077005_Where-the-Crawdads-Sing-Star-Daisy-Edgar-Jones-on-Playing-Kya.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116512,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116510\/revisions\/116512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}