Tawnee TV
Holly Hunter is returning to TV – and for good reason, Alan Ball has asked her to.
The “True Blood” and “Six Feet Under” ‘God’ has asked the Oscar Winning actress to star in a new untitled multiracial family drama that HBO has agreed to run.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “The project focuses on a contemporary multiracial family: a philosophy professor; his lawyer wife; their three adopted children from Somalia, Vietnam and Colombia; and their sole biological child. This seemingly perfect, progressive family is harboring deep rifts. One of the children begins to see things others cannot. Is it mental illness or something else? The series is a tragicomic meditation on the complicated forces at work on us all in America today.
Hunter will star as Audrey Black, matriarch of the Black-Bishop family. She and her husband, Greg, are socially conscious idealists who decided to build a family by adopting children from overseas before having their own child in their 40s. Once a therapist in private practice, Audrey now reluctantly uses her skills as a psychologist in the corporate world, balancing her more progressive personal philosophy with the need to make money. She is a smart, caring woman who believes she knows what’s best for everyone and has no problem telling them. But with her husband now fighting depression and her children mostly grown, Audrey finds herself somewhat adrift.”
Considering the movie world doesn’t seem to know what to do with the fabulous Ms Hunter – “Batman vs. Superman”, anyone!? Really!? – it’s a good thing she’s headed back to TV.. and for this. Should be solid.
