Aubrey Plaza to steer Hulu drama pilot ‘Olga Dies Dreaming’

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: “Parks and Recreation” star Aubrey Plaza is about to characteristic in an Hulu’s upcoming drama pilot. Titled “Olga Dies Dreaming”, the pilot relies on the forthcoming novel by Xochitl Gonzalez, reported Deadline.

The potential sequence centres on a Nuyorican brother and sister from gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn who’re reckoning with their absent, politically radical mom and their glittering careers amongst New York City’s elite within the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Plaza will play the titular position of Olga Acevedo, a famend marriage ceremony planner whose floor successes masks a darker inside.

“For Olga, the pursuit of perfection has become a compulsive survival mechanism as she tries to climb as far from her past as she can. Still, she can’t shake the feeling that the important people she knows don’t see her as their equals and this nagging sense that her success is an illusion always leaves her wanting more,” the character description learn.

Gonzalez will pen the pilot with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon serving because the director. Gomez-Rejon partnered with Gonzalez after studying the manuscript of her novel. They have developed the mission and can government produce the pilot.

twentieth Television is the studio. Plaza is greatest identified for that includes in sitcom “Parks and Recreation” and FX hit present “Legion”. Her subsequent mission is upcoming FX animated sequence “Little Demon”, alongside Danny and Lucy DeVito.

She has additionally starred in characteristic movies comparable to “Ingrid Goes West”, “The To Do List”, “Black Bear” and “Happiest Season”.