In relation to creating upcoming book-to-screen variations, making certain you decide the appropriate actors to painting the characters is at all times difficult. For Amazon Prime Video’s The Higher Sister, the 2 leads are Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks. Whereas everybody has been saying they seem like precise siblings for years, the 2 all-stars opened up about really enjoying them for the primary time – and the showrunner talks about the way it was like “lightning struck.”
After I had the possibility to talk to the actors about enjoying sisters and the expertise behind it after years of comparisons, their solutions have been every part. Banks mentioned it was really easy to sink into that sister function as a result of it was enjoyable between the 2 of them:
I’ve heard it through the years, which is a large praise to me…we had such a good time doing it. It was very enjoyable. It was straightforward to create this sisterly-frenemy friendship.
Biel admitted that she by no means might have imagined anybody else taking over the function of Nicky, and that when she discovered, she was ecstatic:
Instantly, I used to be like, ‘Oh, that is the proper…it needed to be you.’ For me, I used to be like, ‘That is the apparent alternative.’ However then it was simply thrilling. The second I heard, I used to be like, ‘Okay. Yep. Excellent.’
What a collection for these two to star in. The Higher Sister is an glorious Amazon Prime collection primarily based on the novel of the identical identify, and premieres as a part of the 2025 TV schedule. It tells the story of two wildly totally different sisters entangled in a courtroom case that turns their lives the wrong way up.
It is a vital main function for Banks, showcasing her dramatic prowess alongside Biel, and the 2 actresses play the a part of sisters completely. Co-showrunner Olivia Milch jokingly mentioned that she and her fellow showrunner, Regina Corrado, felt “sensible” once they put their photos collectively, and that they have been simply so fortunate to pair these two:
We jokingly say it is like we bear in mind the primary time we put their photos collectively and we thought, ‘Are we sensible?’ That is wonderful. They appear a lot alike, they sound alike – I imply, it is loopy. The method is at all times a little bit of alchemy once you’re placing a undertaking collectively, and also you simply hope that you just sort of get lightning to strike the best way that it did for this. The place you have got these two actors who’re such unbelievable performers and such wonderful producers, to have individuals who have the holistic undertaking in thoughts and individuals who audiences love and really feel this familiarity with.
The showrunner continued by saying that to Biel and Banks, enjoying sisters simply “made sense” as a result of it felt so “pure”:
To have them play sisters, it makes a lot sense. ‘trigger I feel instantly audiences are like, ‘Oh yeah, I am in it with you. I am on this household with you, and I wanna know what it is like.’ To see the 2 of them collectively, it simply made a lot sense. It simply felt so pure. You simply at all times rely your fortunate stars when it comes collectively this fashion.
It seems like this has been years within the making. Whereas it is at all times enjoyable to think about seeing these two actresses in different roles – like Jessica Biel and her loopy Pocket book audition or Elizabeth Banks begging to be in The White Lotus – there’s one thing so gratifying about seeing them collectively now in The Higher Sister. It is intense and humorous at occasions, and completely fitted to them.
You’ll be able to try all eight episodes of The Higher Sister with an Amazon Prime subscription. And belief me, you are going to need your popcorn for this one – you received’t have the ability to cease watching.