Shining Vale

(L-R) Judith Light, Dylan Gage, Gus Birney, Jeff Astrof, Mira Sorvino, Merrin Dungey, Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear, and Alysia Reiner attend the "Shining Vale" ...

Just the transformation of that has been amazing,” Kinnear told the Boston Globe. Slowly, the couple, portrayed by Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, realize the home has a grisly history, and only Cox's character, Pat, can see the ghost of a supposed killer. Over the years, Connecticut has been a constant source of inspiration for the horror movie community.

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“When we got on set for [Shining Vale], Courteney said, ‘Nice to meet you.’ But I reminded her that we met before, and she actually did remember because it was a big episode,” recalled Dungey, who is more than just a Friends guest star but also a superfan who rewatches old episodes as comfort content before bed. She also said she loved the scenes that required sparring with Kinnear, the ones that featured Pat’s children and even the supernatural elements that saw her going toe-to-toe with Sorvino. “She is a really talented actor, and she’s so deep. “She’s incredible,” Cox told THR of Banks. “She has such good instincts, and she makes you think outside of the box. By the time we got to the end of this, everybody was crying, not only because of the time we spent together and the fact that it was over, but because it was so raw, so emotional and it brought up so much deep stuff. He added that while she’s “obviously one of the most famous people on the planet,” he’d never seen her do the type of acting Shining Vale would ask of her. “I knew she would have dark hair,” Astrof explained to The Hollywood Reporter on Monday night standing outside TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, site of the Starz world premiere.

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But the show is neither funny enough nor dramatic enough to draw us into what’s going on with the Phelps family. Let’s just say that Cox’s character Pat uses a lot of f-bombs and other curses, and even acknowledges to Gaynor to not be like her. The very first night, Pat thinks she sees a “handsome woman” in an old-fashioned dress. She calls Terry in from work to check and he sees nothing. Terry (Greg Kinnear) and Pat (Courteney Cox) have been navigating a marriage crisis, ever since Pat cheated on Terry with the handyman. Also in the car is their snotty teenage daughter Gaynor (Gus Birney) and the painfully shy, video-game obsessed son Jake (Dylan Gage). He’s so out of it that, as they roll up to the gate of their new house, he thinks they’re on vacation.

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Sorvino has been returning to our screens in the last few years (please watch her work in Impeachment: American Crime Story and Hollywood), but Vale gives her the chance to work in a sillier, period realm. Shining Vale is the perfect vehicle for Courtney Cox. It hilariously blends a hard, comedic edge with a spooky ghost story to tackle depression and marital strife. The tough exterior hides her insecurity and fears just enough, but her softness comes out from time to time. Pat gained a following by writing Cressida, a sex-filled, female empowerment story that is belittled by being compared to smut. Cox is allowed to lean into a more sarcastic, dry delivery, but her Pat is plagued by depression and worries that her mother’s psychosis is setting in. A huge mansion–complete with cobwebs and creaking stairs–can’t end well.

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You’d think this would be the kind of thing that is scarcely mentioned, but it’s brought up all the time, especially by Terry, who is trying to convince himself he’s over it but obviously isn’t, and Gaynor, who has seized on a seemingly viable reason for Pat not to be able to judge her choices or tell her what to do. Pat’s infidelity is mostly an excuse for punchlines, and there are a lot of them. Since the symptoms are the same, there’s no telling one from the other.

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However, she transfers to the morgue after a zombie outbreak at a party she attended to help solve crimes. Scream: The TV Series is based on the slasher Scream film series. The show follows the story of Liv (Rose McIver), who was once at the top of her game as a medical resident. After all, the scene of a triple murder-suicide is usually a turn-off for most people when it comes to buying a property! However, it doesn’t take too long for the family to discover why they managed to get the house at such a bargain price. No one but Pat seems to notice the issues with the new house at first, and given her mental state, she's convinced she's either possessed or seeing things. Terry and Pat Phelps move from the family house in the city to the country in a last-ditch attempt to save their fragile marriage. The series centers on the Phelps family: Pat (Courtney Cox) and Terry Phelps (Greg Kinnear), and their two teenage kids, Gaynor and Jake. While they may seem like a happy family to outsiders, their move to the country stems from a torrid affair Pat had with a local handyman who came to fix the kitchen sink while Terry was at work. But, as you might expect, there's usually a good reason when things are cheap, and in Shining Vale's case, the Phelps' new home was the scene for terrible past atrocities. Shining Vale is set to debut on 6 March 2022, dropping the first two episodes at once. However, despite Pat's issues, the evil spirit trying to possess her is definitely not just a symptom of her escalating depression. It follows a dysfunctional family who moves from their comfortable but not so happy city life to a small town in the country.

At a press event attended by CBR, Shining Vale's Mira Sorvino sheds some light onto Rosemary's mysterious ways in Starz's latest horror-comedy series.

She herself is constrained by these societal regulations and her own regulations and the weird inherited relationship with her mom. That's the part of her that's calling to by Rosemary like, 'Don't ignore that part of you, because otherwise you're just not really living truthfully.'" "So there was a 50s housewife that lived in that house that looked like Rosemary but didn't dress as glamorously, wasn't as fabulous, wasn't self-actualized and proud and feisty. And I think that as Rosemary has more influence on her, she realizes that maybe [her current life] is not enough for her. So when she's the ghost version, or the spirit version, or whatever you want to call that manifestation, she is all the things that she wished to be in life. "There was a historical Rosemary that lived in the house," she continued.

Mira Sorvino talked about the inspiration and anarchic glee of playing a 1950s ghost on "Shining Vale."

When I was first working on her, I was looking at classic housewife television shows from that era, like “Ozzie and Harriet,” or “Leave It to Beaver,” or “The Donna Reed Show.” I was so struck with how shallow the life that you were supposed to be seeing was, especially in “The Donna Reed Show.” [It] is this endless round of dinner parties, and swapping recipes, and keeping up with the Joneses. The energy to maintain that must have been so hard. Racial inequity and racism; we have enacted laws and we have tried to institute practices that make things more equal, but we have a long way to go because the ugliness of racism still exists, is still so pervasive, just like the ugliness of sexism. When we see her, I feel like she’s trying to be this image of womanhood that never really existed, but that she got from the movies. Mira Sorvino: There was a kind of anachronistic glee [and] this zeal to be alive, because she’s been dead for 70 years, and to communicate and to live life to the fullest in an impossible way. “Being a member of the female gender sets us up for such a different life than, say, if we were a straight cisgender white male from an affluent background,” Sorvino told IndieWire in a recent Zoom conversation. As a 1950s ghost haunting Cox’s Pat Phelps, Sorvino appreciated Rosemary’s devilish “glee” at getting a second chance to live through Pat and her family.

The house comes with something extra: a ghost played by Mira Sorvino. Courtney Cox is Patricia, a wife and mother who hasn't been handling stress well. Courtney ...

I knew the things I didn’t I was going to figure it out.” Courtney Cox: “She is a writer and has writer’s block. Courtney Cox: “She is going through a mid-life crisis. Greg Kinnear: “Something has happened. Courtney Cox: “It’s a drama, it’s a comedy, it’s a horror film.” Courtney Cox: “I was drawn to the film because I am a mom, and I understood the family dynamic, and I understand all of it in some way.

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And American Crime Story actress Mira Sorvino plays Rosemary, who is “Pat’s alter ego, a split personality, her id, her muse, or a demon trying to possess her.” In Shining Vale, Courteney plays Patricia “Pat” Phelps, a novelist and former wild child who has cleaned up her act but can’t find her muse for her second novel. … Everyone has their demons, but for Pat Phelps, they may be real.” “I love to be scared and love to laugh, and this is just such a unique combination of these two things, a genre I’ve never seen before,” she told Deadline last August. “It deals with family issues, infidelity, mental health issues. For Courtney, who’s also a star of the Scream film series, Shining Vale was an irresistible blend of horror and comedy. But their new home has a “storied past of its own,” since it’s where “terrible atrocities have taken place,” as Starz says in a synopsis for the series.