Emily Browning has said she’s not frightened people will compare her recent show ‘Class of 07’ to Showtime’s hit ‘Yellowjackets’.
“It’s positive with me,” Browning, 34, told The Post. “Because it is not such as you watch one and also you do not have to watch the opposite. In the event you’re watching “Yellowjackets”, it’s form of a lighter, warmer companion piece. Less terrifying, spooky and deadly.
Now streaming (Prime Video), “Class of 07” is a half-hour comedy set in Australia, following Zoe (Browning) as she lives off-grid after being shamed on national television – within the misfortune of a dating show, that goes viral on the web.
Living in isolation, he sees a warning that an apocalyptic wave is coming that may overwhelm the whole lot. Escaping to the subsequent level, she unknowingly stumbles upon a Tenth-anniversary highschool reunion, where she meets her best friend Amelia (Megan Smart) and mean former classmate Saskia (Caitlin Stasey, “Like Me”). Zoe joins the party quite than properly warn everyone concerning the upcoming wave, which angers all the ladies when disaster strikes.
Former peers work together to discover a recent lifestyle in an old highschool, in a “Lord of the Flies” type environment.
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Browning has done quite a few theatrical projects, including Sucker Punch, Uninvited, Legend and American Gods, but this series marks her first foray into comedy.
“I had to do a solid week of improv games and comedy camp to learn to loosen up because I’m used to drama,” she said. “I’m often quite locked up in my performances and had to let go completely.
“After reading that opening scene, I routinely thought, ‘I’ve never played a job like this before, I just want to completely embarrass myself and do something outside of my comfort zone.’ I used to be excited concerning the idea of doing comedy. I used to be just trying to bring out probably the most awkward, embarrassing version of myself. Zoe is certainly into me.
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Although Class 07 deals with natural disasters and dystopian themes, it focuses on the connection between former classmates who’ve held grudges and grudges against one another for years.
“It’s really exciting to have these big epic stories that involve the entire world, but then just watch the interactions between a select group of individuals and the way they cope with it. This could be a bit of hard to process, but it surely’s a really closed story. It’s concerning the end of the world in a giant umbrella sense, but it surely’s about how we cope with it. It has a component of science fiction to it since it’s apocalyptic,” Stasey, 32, told The Post.
“I feel our show is most like Orange is the Recent Black. It is a comedy set in a high-stakes environment, but it surely’s really about relationships. And all of those apocalyptic shows we watch are well structured, but mostly dramatic. There is a sandy sadness to it. It’s extremely joyful, even considering the circumstances.”