I just put everything I had into that audition. But I felt confident that this was something that I would really love to continue if I got it.
I’ve always been terrified to do TV, because that is a major contract – you could potentially be playing a character that you don’t really like anymore. I loved the idea of bringing her to life. I love the entanglement and everyone’s purpose and why they were doing what they were doing. I was sent the script, I think it was for the first episode, and immediately fell in love with Jessica Hyde.
We reached Lane in Atlanta over Zoom to discuss the character, how she prepared for fight scenes and where she wants to take her career next. Lane stars alongside John Cusack and Rainn Wilson as Jessica Hyde, the tough-as-nails heroine who comes to life from the Utopia universe to save the world (and help the nerds, of course). (Filming, somewhat eerily, was completed before COVID-19 ravaged the world.) The conspiracy thriller, based on the original British version, tells the tale of a group of comic-book nerds who become infatuated with a rare, ostensibly fictional comic called Utopia.
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Lane’s latest project is Utopia, a pandemic-centric series helmed by Gillian Flynn, streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Lane, an untrained actor, was cast in Arnold’s film American Honey opposite Shia LaBeouf – and the rest, as they say, was history.
Four years ago, the then-college student was spotted by director Andrea Arnold while spending spring break at a Florida beach. Sasha Lane had an unconventional start to her acting career.
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