“Joy is a little bit lost,” explains Bening.
I think she feels invisible.
I think she feels unseen, and I think she has a problem even seeing herself.
Conor Merrigan-Turner as Logan, Essie Randles as Brooke, Sam Neill as Stan, Annette Bening as Joy, Alison Brie as Amy, Jake Lacy as Troy in ‘Apples Never Fall’.Vince Valitutti/PEACOCK via Getty
She’s searching and she doesn’t even know what for."
And there’s a cost.
And now I think they’re paying the price of that.
Annette Bening as Joy.Jasin Boland/PEACOCK
There’s years and layers of stuff.
Some of it’s just between me and my husband that the kids don’t even know about.
And some of it’s happened with the children.
Sam Neill as Stan.Jasin Boland/PEACOCK
“Part of it, I think, is Joy’s responsibility.
She doesn’t show it.
He describes his character as someone who “ferociously loves his family” but is “super competitive.”
Alison Brie as Amy.Jasin Boland/PEACOCK
“But he’s also vulnerable and full of love and also kind of hilarious in his own way.
I found Stan to be very funny.
Doesn’t mean to be, but he just is.
Jake Lacy as Troy.Jasin Boland/PEACOCK
He just turns out that way.
He’s a very complex character to play with, and I enjoyed Stan a lot.”
“I think Stan is hard to read.
Conor Merrigan-Turner as Logan.Jasin Boland/PEACOCK
It’s obvious that Stan is capable of anything and a lot of his stuff is difficult to read.
Is it guilt that he’s showing?
Is he angry because he is innocent and people don’t believe him?
Essie Randles as Brooke.Jasin Boland/PEACOCK
Or is he angry because he has done something and they shouldn’t believe him?
He’s a difficult guy to read.
There’s an essential enigma about Stan.
“But then things weigh on his mind more and more.
She stays on for too long.
She is a catalyst for many, many things in the story, and not the least in Stan.
It’s an uncomfortable situation for him, ultimately.”
“She’s more of a fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants gal.
I think that Amy has made her life’s rebellion against the Delaney family and their goal-oriented competitive nature.
Amy seeks to be a great communicator, and wants that from her family as well.
Conversely, says Brie, “Her siblings really fall apart.
And so there’s a real, like, who is caregiving for who here?
And so when Joy disappears, there’s this stabilizing that happens for all the siblings.
But in Troy’s mind, he thinks he’s the unique one.
And so there’s always, at least with Troy, some mix of what does he really think?
Does he even know?
Then some of that crumbles and some of it leads him in the wrong path.
What does the character think of the mysterious Savannah:“Logan is suspicious from the get.
Anyone walking into the dynamic could be friend or foe.
And he sort of immediately was thinking foe.”
She can be very hard on her sister, Amy.
Apples Never Fallpremieres on Peacock March 14.
