With Vladimir, the series adaptation of her 2022 novel, author Julia May Jonas had to figure out a way to bring an introspective and unreliable narrator to the screen. The eight episodes chart a middle-aged professor’s all-consuming obsession with her younger colleague, Vladimir, as her life unravels around her. “The big challenge,” says Jonas, “was how to take a book that was really internal and make it external.”
Jonas achieves this by having the protagonist, who remains unnamed, address the camera directly. Her fantasies about Vladimir play out onscreen, an intoxicating escape from her stale reality. The role is equal parts mischievous, sexy, and thought-provoking, and it required an actor…
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