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With Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Amelia Eve, T'Nia Miller. After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose.
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- 2020-10-09
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- ‘Every character has a voice and has an issue’
Just three years after graduating from college, actor Victoria Pedretti has achieved a level of success fit for a Hollywood fairytale. The 25-year-old rising star is using that success — and her on-camera skills — to line up projects that highlight issues she’s passionate about.
In her most recent TV role, in Netflix’s “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” Pedretti stars as Dani, an American au pair taking care of two orphaned children at a British estate. Dani’s queer love story — an act of activism itself, as the series is set in the 1980s — has garnered its fair share of headlines and fan praise, but Pedretti said her character’s subtle-yet-courageous brand of feminism has been largely overlooked.
“We’ve kind of even oversimplified her journey so much in so many of the conversations I’ve seen,” she said.
Prior to Dani leaving her American life behind and heading to England, she’s under pressure to marry her childhood friend, Edmund. In one of the series’ most powerful scenes, the two are in a parked car and Dani has a monologue that, while vague, appears to be her coming out. To Pedretti’s dismay, she said much of that scene didn’t make the final cut, but she said the essence of the scene went beyond her character’s sexuality.
“She’s also coming out as a feminist and somebody who’s interested in existing beyond what’s expected of her as a woman in that place, in that time,” she said. “It’s more that this isn’t her truth, that’s she’s not living fully in her truth. Part of that is her sexuality, but another part of that is her capabilities and utilizing her capabilities to the highest degree.”
In preparation for her roles, Pedretti said she sometimes draws inspiration from the performances of other actors. For Dani, it was Timothée Chalamet’s character Elio in “Call Me By Your Name,” the critically acclaimed 2017 gay romance set in Italy in the 1980s.
Finding characters who push boundaries or defy expectations is something Pedretti says she is drawn to and integral to the mission behind her work.
“Every character has a voice and has an issue and is privileged in some way and oppressed in another, and there’s a conversation to be had there about how they exist in the world,” she said. “I can’t feel passionate about a project unless I feel like it’s saying something.”
She said she looks for the universal in these specific stories, hoping the projects she is part of will be used as a catalyst for discussion by viewers.
Shortly after the Oct. 9 release of “Bly Manor,” Pedretti appeared in “This Is Not a Love Letter,” a video poem that explores the topic of abortion and the importance of choice.
The project was spearheaded by Isabel Pask, a writer and actress whom Pedretti said “experienced something extremely traumatic and turned it into something exceedingly beautiful that I know so many women have already felt empowered and uplifted by.”
The imagery in the five-minute film, she added, is “so evocative in portraying female strength, the dichotomy between our strength and our fragility as humans, as well as our connectedness and our ability to support and empower each other if we so choose.”
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