Jennifer Nettles is without doubt one of the greatest names in nation music. Because the frontwoman of Sugarland, she’s been a radio favourite for years and years. She additionally moonlights as an actress on occasion (as followers of The Righteous Gem stones will know from her quirky position as Aimee-Leigh). Her newest TV position is in Prime Video’s horror-comedy sequence The Bondsman, which releases in full on Thursday (April 3), and she or he picked that half for a really specific cause.
Within the sequence, she stars as Maryanne Cube, a longtime nightclub singer with hopes of lastly making it into the recording scene in Nashville … till her ex-husband Hub (performed by Kevin Bacon) is murdered and resurrected as a demon-hunter who inadvertently ropes her into his harmful new profession.
“I’ve been approached quite a few instances earlier than with gives to come back into TV and movie tasks that had been a couple of musician, and I’ve turned all of them down till now,” she instructed TV Insider. “I felt like, primary, they didn’t actually perceive the trade — it was at all times form of glamorized in a sure manner or exaggerated. However this present specifically, they’re musicians dwelling lives. There’s rather more to what’s happening, clearly, on this world and Hell and past.”
“You get to see them, not simply as musicians, however you get to grasp extra of who they’re, by way of their character, by way of their relationship,” Nettles continued.
Certainly, a serious arc of The Bondsman is Hub’s rejection of the music world, at the same time as Maryanne begins to get an enormous break, together with their teenage son Cade (Maxwell Jenkins). In key flashbacks, we study that Hub and Maryanne used to carry out authentic songs collectively when issues had been higher between them.
These tunes had been written by Bacon and Nettles themselves and are being launched as an album after the present’s streaming premiere.
“I simply beloved the chance on this present as nicely to put in writing for these characters and to put in writing for the present. Kevin and I received to collaborate and to put in writing music for this,” she defined. “All of that’s music that’s impressed by and written because the characters within the present. So there’s actually a variety of layers to it.”
The Bondsman, April 3, Prime Video