Skye P. Marshall Is not religious, but she believes in magic. You must have some belief in a higher power after the few years she has had. For the “Matlock“The actress, 2020 and thereafter has been a veritable hot streak of impeccable timing, great turn and Classic Hollywood Saga. Get TV Actors experience so happiness, especially today – but Marshall’s breakout role at CBS’s buzzy legal drama did not happen overnight.
“I didn’t have the courage to ask for what I wanted to do with the rest of my adult life until I was 27,” Marshall told Indiewire, looking back on the decade since she moved from New York to California. “Everyone thought I was crazy. They were like, “Do you have an agent?” ‘No.’ “Any formal education?” ‘Not really.’ “However, you have friends in LA, right?” ‘No, I don’t.’ It was a cocktail of a disaster of an idea – and I sipped every drop. ”
Karismatic and elegant, frightening yet easily accessible, Marshall’s “Matlock” character Olympia Lawrence is the latest in a long line of stage -stalking TV lawyers played by talented black women. Together with Kathy Bates Like the title Matlock and Jason Ritter as Olympia’s exman/colleague Julian, quotes Marshall Viola Davis in “How to Get Away with Murder” Like her main museum. It is a suitable character comparison considering, only eight episodes in the series, Olympia is investigated for a young girl’s death and Grappling with adultery – both plots Davis’s fictional lawyer knew too well.
That drama and more awaits when “Matlock” returns from its mid -season break tonight, Thursday, January 30. There will be three more episodes in Season 1 (will be broadcast each week to February 13). Then it is on to the already confirmed season 2 and the next step in Marshall’s happy creative journey.
“What I’m most excited about in section 9 is that Olympia will finally find out who Julian cheated on her with,” teased Marshall to IndieWire. “That section was also the most fun I had on the set because we had to deliver a lot of physical comedy and very playful improvisation, Kathy and I, which you don’t really see. Having it for us to do together, just to experience her so, was so special. Don’t get started with her with Adam Sandler in ‘The Waterboy.’
Developed by Jennie Snyder Urman, the new “Matlock” is something of an incorrect nomot. The reimaginated TV classic is just similar to the retro start you may have expected in the current age. Nevertheless, the show built up a weekly audience on average 13.2 million viewers last fall – and continues to attract critical recognition. Unlike the episodic procedure from the 90s, modern “Matlock” follows several mysteries that continue throughout the season 1. By going by Alias Matty Matlock (an explicit nod to the original TV series) stars such as the rich undercover lawyer Madeline Kingston . Kingston is a hard dark horse and is in fact a lawyer, but she has been driven to extreme grief after losing her daughter to the opioide epidemic. In the pilot, Matty Jacobson Moore infiltrates – it is Olympia’s law firm – to find and reveal someone where she holds responsible.
“The Irony is not lost to me that” Matlock “is centered around Big Pharma,” said Marshall, whose last job in New York was actually in pharmaceutical marketing. “Seeing it in the script just sent me to the floor and laughed, but again it speaks everything to hand over and follow these characters.”
Born in Chicago, Marshall will remember that he was “thrown into a tutu at the age of five” for dance recites and social shows. The art was always appreciated in her house, but actors were a “hobby” that was never presented as a real profession. Instead, she entered the military and served as an active member of the Air Force to afford college teaching. She went to Northeastern Illinois University (“with Uncle Sam as my sugar dad,” she joked) and graduated with awards.
“I always liked to chase that challenge, but I did these things because people told us where all the challenges were – whether it was the military, college or company,” she said. “But now, with” Matlock “, what I’ve talked to is talking back.”
After two years living in New York, the future TV star felt stuck in her business career. Then the housing market crashed. At a time when others held stability in their cabinets, Marshall felt more inspired to give her up. She already acted (in places in the city like Broadway Dance Center and Stella Adler Studio of Acting) as a kind of “therapy” – but began to experience more and more “lively dreams of LA.”
“I woke up all the time in the middle of the night and something just didn’t feel right,” she said. “Then it started to cross into reality, where I would see tourism mans for California on posters or pictures from LA when I arrived on the subway. People I knew would suddenly say to me: ‘Oh my God, have you ever intended to be an actor? I think you would be good at it. ‘It was everywhere. “
Marshall took the leap and finally came to Los Angeles in 2009. The fight she endured west is very romanticized and it is worth noting, does not work for all people. But at least for the real-hearted actress, Old Hollywood Hustle Marshall’s dream transformed into a reality-long but certainly.
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During the entire thirties, Marshall tore away at an astonishing double life. An undiscovered talent in central casting a day, and a Cater Waiter tips and connections at night, she treated every gig as a chance to learn. Marshall appeared in Scads of small roles and non-speaking parts, from “Grey’s anatomy” and “Dexter” to “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “9-1-1.” After “begging” the other deputy director of “CSI: New York” to make her a permanent background actor, she settled there as a forensic technician for more than a year. The actress found another important opportunity for growth with her first recurring speaking role for “shameless”.
“I learned a long time ago that it’s not about what you do, it’s about who you are while you do,” Marshall said. “I used that opportunity as a background actor not only to be an extra, but to be a paid trainee. TV production was a whole new dialogue that I had to learn and a whole new way of being. ”
Marshall was still set to make it a network -TV – and she had a special preference for CBS.
“My first Vision Board when I came to LA was a CBS procedure drama, and my first apartment I moved in was across the party on Radford,” she said. “I could look over the wall. I would sit on my balcony with my coffee, and I would just visualize myself like a regular on a CBS show. And I was safe, but as a background actor first. That’s how I learned specificity in your prayers is the key. ”
Before “Matlock” Marshall became a series regularly on CBS Medical Drama “Good Sam.” She got herself as Dr. Lex Trulie by DM-Ing Creator Katie Welch on Instagram and ran into action when Showrunner asked her to come in for a spor-of-the-moment audition.
“If I had not sent her that DM that day and then respond to that call to be at CBS, all within a three -hour window, I would have missed that opportunity,” reminded Marshall with awe. “And when I came to the network test, guess what? That’s where I met Edwin Hodge. He is now mine MAN. ”
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Marshall reminds to meet two more people who would change her life that day. According to the actress – who is joyful at every tour who told her story – in the next room producers Jennie Snyder Urman, the possible showrunner for “Matlock” and Joanna Klein, executive producer of “Matlock.” When Marshall finally got her hands on the pilot script, she knew she had found “a new role to possess over” and booked the opportunity to read for Olympia.
Neither Urman nor Klein told Bates that they had worked with Marshall before the audition. As she entered the room, she reminded herself to see big names for the role on the conversation sheet and noted especially “designer purses on the sofa.” Freshly, the new actress claimed his chemistry with the Oscar Award winner anyway – and asked for a hug when he went in.
“It is a cardinal rule that you do not touch celebrities if it is not on the stage, but she came right against me,” said Marshall. “I only knew if she could feel that my heart is thumping out of the chest, I knew Kathy Bates – the one who was the unknown for” misery “when everyone beat all the big names – I knew she would see me. “She did. Marshall learned after the audition that Bates turned to the room and immediately said: “Well, it’s her, right?”
When he speaks to IndieWire from Chicago, the actress shares his time between both coast and takes care of his older mother in Illinois. Landing Olympia on “Matlock” allowed Marshall to buy her mother a house and forged a family band between her, Bates and more of the “Matlock” team.
“When people circulated pictures of us at Times Square and looked at that sign and we cried together, it was real tears because I couldn’t think I was at Times Square with Kathy Bates after accomplishing such a performance of a TV season , “said Marshall. “And Kathy could not have imagined being a poster girl at 76 – of self. Tell the last time you’ve seen her on a sign. With her extensive resume and I was a new discovery, we met each other at that moment with exactly the same feelings and the seriousness of what we had created together. ”
Threatened by the promise of a “Twisty” Season 1 -Finale, Olympia and Matty’s developing confidence could crash at any time. But for the leading “food lids” men, their connection on the screen and real friendship seems almost humble. They are bound in not only mutual admiration, but also their show’s biggest secret.
“Not even my husband has any idea what is coming,” Marshall said. “It’s really good. He has no idea. No one in my life, none of my best friends, just the people who had the script at that table, know who is responsible for (Matty’s daughter). I can’t wait for that mountain and roller coaster and get to that answer – too right when you think you figured it out you didn’t. And I get to do all this with Kathy. “
“Matlock” returns with the rest of season 1 on Thursday, January 30 at 21 o’clock.
