Rosy McEwen will play a young version of Oscar-winning Australian actress Nicole Kidman in an upcoming TV series.
The English actress labelled it “a daunting prospect” as she spoke to 9honey Celebrity in London about her involvement in the new season of Netflix hit series Black Mirror.
“We were playing the same character, which is quite a daunting prospect, and she welcomed me with open arms, which she didn’t have to do at all,” McEwen says of filming Scarpetta late last year.
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The 31-year-old couldn’t give enough praise to the actress, who is also a producer on the series.
“She’s the queen. I adore her, she’s so … she knows who she is, she knows what she wants, and she’s very kind,” McEwen adds.
The upcoming crime drama, based on Patricia Cornwell’s books, also stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Simon Baker, Bobby Cannavale and Ariana DeBose.
McEwen plays the younger version of Kidman’s character, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, which meant the pair didn’t have too much time on set together.
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“We would rehearse together at the beginning, and then we’d, like, cross paths in the corridor, wearing the same costume, being like, ‘Hi! How’s it going?’,” McEwen recalls.
“And then I’d go and watch her on set a bit to try and pick up what she was doing, but that was about it.
“So sadly, it wasn’t a lot of time.”
While the internet appears to be obsessed with McEwen’s resemblance to Kidman, the actress says she and her friends – and even Kidman – can’t see it.
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But her Black Mirror Bête Noire co-star Siena Kelly also thinks the resemblance is uncanny.
”There’s a picture of you in our episode, there’s a picture where Verity is all dressed up, when I’m scanning through what’s in the room, you look like Nicole Kidman in that so much,” Kelly tells McEwen enthusiastically.
McEwen jokes “it’s very good casting then” before giving her hot take.
“It’s funny cause I don’t… I’m like, thank you so much [but] I don’t really see it and people that know me very well, don’t really see it and also, when I asked Nicole about it, we were both like, ‘Hmm, so weird’,” she laughs.
Kelly and McEwen play co-workers who knew each other at school in the mind-bending Black Mirror episode, where technology can alter realities at the touch of a button.
Despite plenty of screaming matches between their characters, the actors said is was “so much fun”.
“It was like a playground, honestly,” Kelly recalls.
“And Toby our director, he really set that energy of just fun and being a big kid, and he’s really silly. So that allowed us to be really, really silly, and it was just a really light set.”
McEwen agrees with the sentiment.
“It was ridiculous,” she says.
“The characters are completely insane and when we first were in rehearsals, me and Siena were really trying to get to the bottom of ‘why’ and ‘how’ and the layers of these people and that there’s good in them too – and Charlie and Toby were like, they’re really petty.
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“And so we were both like, ‘Oh, okay!’ and it just sort of meant that we could just completely blow it out of the water and make it ridiculous.”
Season 7 of Black Mirror is streaming on Netflix now.
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