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Tuesday 23 augusT 2022
Michelle Monaghan plays identity-switching twins in new show

By ALICIA RANCILIO and you could see them
Associated Press really flawlessly,” explained
You could say Michelle Monaghan.
Monaghan’s co-star in her “I would really just play one
new Netflix series “ Echoes,” character’s side for a few
required her to do twice hours and I would work
the work. Monaghan stars alongside a wonderful ac-
as twins, Gina and Leni, in tress who acted as the op-
the seven-episode thriller posite character. So if I was
drama. playing Leni, she was play-
“It’s a lot. It’s very, very ing Gina for me, and then
much a lot,” the actor said, I would finish that charac-
laughing, in a recent inter- ter and go and do an hour
view. “It was an intense proj- switch of hair, makeup and
ect, as you can imagine. wardrobe and then come
You know, it’s like pulling back and do the other side
double duty, truly, but it’s of that. And we would do
also the very reason I want- that sometimes a couple of
ed to do it, because it was times a day.”
a challenge that I hadn’t Vanessa Gazy, the show’s
obviously explored before.” creator, executive produc-
In “Echoes,” which begins er, and writer, said witness-
streaming Friday, Gina and ing Monaghan’s abilities,
Leni aren’t just twins with a plus the work of the visual
sixth sense about the other Actor Michelle Monaghan poses for a portrait to promote the Netflix limited series “Echoes,” effects department, “is still
Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Los Angeles.
or a close bond, they share Associated Press thrilling” and the end result
everything, so much so that met her “earliest visions for
they switch identities ev- throughout show their child- And they switch and they ty Duke as identical cous- the show.”
ery year on their birthday. hood and teen years and do the thing and they think ins. Those projects used split “Watching a talented ac-
This means they share jobs, what led them to switch it’s fun. They prank people. screens to pull off scenes tor at work is a joy, and to
friends, unsuspecting hus- identities in the first place. And then there are some with both actors. By 1998, watch Michelle Monaghan
bands and a child. As Leni, Monaghan says she stud- other stories where, you Lindsay Lohan starred in split herself in half to inhabit
one is in West Virginia rais- ied twins in preparing for know, kind of people do it the remake of “The Parent two complex, identical
ing horses and a daughter the role and learned that as as adults and maybe in Trap,” using photography women was perhaps dou-
with her husband, played switching identities does a more sinister, manipula- tricks and a body double. bly so. This was an enor-
by Matt Bomer. The other occur. tive way.” For “Echoes,” a motion con- mous undertaking for Mi-
lives a fast-paced life in Los “I learned that a lot of Monaghan isn’t the first ac- trol camera was brought in chelle in particular: playing
Angeles with her therapist switching of identities takes tor to play twins on screen. and Monaghan says she two lead roles over seven
husband (Daniel Sunjata.) place. People tend to do it Memorable examples in- made the switch herself, episodes is not only a per-
Their (twisted) ritual hits as twins when they’re chil- clude the 1961 movie “The between Gina and Leni, formance challenge but a
a major snag when Leni dren generally, you know, Parent Trap” starring Hayley “multiple times a day.” production marathon. She
goes missing and Gina doing it experimentally, I Mills as identical sisters and “What that allowed us to approached the work with
must return home to join suppose, to have fun or to the 1963 TV series, “The Pat- do is really just put both passion, generosity, cour-
in the search. Flashbacks avoid getting in trouble. ty Duke Show,” starring Pat- women there side by side, age and kindness.”q

Stelter says CNN must hold media accountable as show ends

By DAVID BAUDER stand up to demagogues,” Fox News Channel and
AP Media Writer he said. “It’s required. It’s was frequently critical of
NEW YORK (AP) — “Reliable patriotic. We must make Fox, was a lightning rod for
Sources” host Brian Stelter sure we don’t give plat- conservatives’ complaints.
insisted Sunday that he’ll still forms to those who are ly- Some of his final “Reliable
be rooting for CNN even af- ing to our faces. But we Sources” guests were more
ter his show was canceled also must make sure we direct. Eric Deggans, NPR
this week, but stressed that are representing the total television critic, said he
it was important for the net- spectrum of debate and hopes CNN will continue
work and others to hold the representing what’s going to give viewers context
media accountable. on in the country and the and not be reduced to
CNN gave Stelter the world.” It was Stelter’s most false equivalency. “Just the
chance to host a final epi- direct reference to what is facts” isn’t enough, he said.
sode of the 30-year Sunday believed to be the reason “Will CNN have the cour-
morning program on the for his demise; CNN hasn’t age to do that?” Deggans
media even after it was talked publicly about it. asked. “I hope so.”
learned this week that he Since he started this spring, Stelter, who hosted the
and the show would be new CNN chief executive show for nine years, also
exiting — a gesture that’s Chris Licht has made clear had Watergate scribe Carl
relatively rare in television. CNN “Reliable Sources” anchor Brian Stelter attends The he wants to tone down Bernstein as a guest and
Stelter said that it was not Hollywood Reporter’s annual Most Powerful People in Media opinion, particularly as it brought back the first guest
partisan to stand up for de- issue celebration on May 17, 2022, in New York. Associated Press made Republicans resis- from the first “Reliable
cency, democracy and di- tant to the network. Stelter, Sources” in 1992 — then-lo-
alogue. “It’s not partisan to who wrote a book about cal journalist Brian Karem.q