There are few opportunities for TV actors to get the chance to spend more than a year with a character before viewers come into the picture, but Jacob Moskowitz and the rest of the cast deer The cast has spent over a year and two seasons with the characters.
Prime Video’s coming-of-age series, which serves as a prequel to Legally blondepremiered on July 1, but the cast has already wrapped filming for season 2. “There was a lot of mental gymnastics and spoiler anxiety,” Moskovitz — who plays Miles, one of Elle’s love interests on the show — jokes. Hollywood Reporter About how she’ll survive Season 2 as promotion for Season 1 ramps up.
The actor says the ensemble cast, led by Elle Woods herself, Lexi Mintree, developed a solid foundation with each other and in themselves to film the next season before the first season aired. “It was really nice to get to live with the characters a little longer before the last part of the audience arrived,” he says. “It was like our world for two seasons.”
From the beginning, Moskowitz knew this deer It would be a big project, but he hadn’t even thought how big it would be Legally blonde25th anniversary earlier this year. He and the other actors attended an event that brought together the original film’s cast. Moskowitz said the original cast had some advice for the new group: Let Elle Woods lead and their characters will form around her.
in deerthe titular character finds herself transported from her glamorous life in Bel Air to rainy, grumpy Seattle. Similar to Elle’s hitch Legally blonde – Just replace Harvard with Seattle – The character has to find a way to integrate into a place where they don’t feel very welcome.
Moskowitz’s character, Miles, is one of the first people at school to show Elle kindness. The actor recalls the professor once declaring that one of the rarest things to be seen on screen and in the theater is kindness. Naturally, a crush is formed. But Miles spends the first part of deer However, he is off limits, starting the show as the boyfriend of a girl whose friend Elle desperately wants to be her friend. “It takes him a while to make friends with others, but he’s instantly drawn to her and she’s obsessed with her,” he says.
The actor, of course, always knew this was it Legally blonde project, but reality struck several times – it was set in Vancouver and the film’s 25th anniversary event. “We all know how big this movie is,” he says, “but I think part of me has to say, ‘I’m not going to care about any of this.'” That sentiment was shared by Moskovitz and many of the other actors in the project, largely new characters who were not introduced in the film. Legally blonde Canon before the series. Minetree, of course, was the exception, as she had to eat, sleep, and breathe the pink world.
“Meeting Reese and knowing that she was behind all of this gave the audience a lot of faith and gave us a lot of faith and trust. [It] “It gave us a safety net to play and do our jobs. We had to study hard and then we had to forget about it and support Lexi,” Moskowitz says.
The actor is quick to praise his co-star, especially considering the fact that he and the other young actors didn’t have the baggage of playing a legacy character like Minetree did. “She has to maintain this hero character,” he says. “She’s so wonderful.” “She didn’t need anyone’s help, honestly.”
deer It represents Moskowitz’s largest project to date; He spent his post-college life in New York working catering jobs and doing theater downtown. He’s honest that he wasn’t necessarily looking to be part of the youth world, but since joining the show, he’s come to view the genre differently. “They feel like human stories about the message of authenticity,” he says.
Miles, as a character, is important to the actor. “I drew heavily on my high school experience to play him because this is just a guy who is Mr. Perfect. He’s the golden boy and everyone thinks he’s one thing, but he’s been living his whole life doing what everyone says he does,” Moskovitz says.
He continues, “And then he meets someone who is so authentically like himself, so brave, so determined, who really has a voice, and he sees that in her immediately and it’s like lightning to him.” “It’s romantic, it’s personal, and he realizes something he hasn’t had his whole life.”
Moskowitz is serious in the way he talks about acting. He graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and began acting when he was young. He was on the stage crew until he joined the choir and his teacher suggested that he had a good voice and should try out for musicals.
He got the understudy role, and lo and behold, he ended up having to go on to play Jimmy Smith in Totally modern millie. There was a small problem: he had saved the Broadway show he had been watching online instead of his school’s version of the show. “I kept it going and everyone was confused because I wasn’t blocking our show. I was blocking a Broadway show,” he says, laughing at the memory. “I’ll just do what Gavin Creel did on the show.”
with deer Having already finished filming his second season, Moskowitz still has a busy second half of the year ahead. Next, he has Brianthe upcoming film that premiered at SXSW earlier this year. His character is “very different” from Miles, and in a description of the film — which revolves around a race for class president that finds him as the current class president looking to hold on to his power — notes the similarity to another Witherspoon classic, election.
Moskowitz also stars alongside the cast — Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones, to name a few — in the upcoming Netflix film. Here comes the flood. The film, which was filmed in Morocco, gave the actor the opportunity to work with one of his heroes in Pattinson. “I got to work with him and do this really epic war sequence and work with some amazing performers,” he says. “I was just happy [to be there]. I was going to play a tree in this movie.
