TV Stars Who’ve Directed Their Personal Exhibits: Cynthia Nixon, Extra

Motion! Cynthia Nixon, Ian Somerhalder and extra TV stars have taken on a couple of duty whereas filming their exhibits.

Nixon revealed in October 2021 that she directed an episode of And Simply Like That, the Intercourse and the Metropolis revival set to debut on HBO Max later that 12 months. “It’s been a whole dream to work with my beloved co-stars and crew on this new function,” she captioned a celebratory Instagram publish on the time. “I’ve really by no means felt so supported in my life. (And don’t fear, Miranda remains to be going to be within the episode — it was surreal to do each directly!) #AndJustLikeThat.”

Costar Kristin Davis commented that it was “a lot enjoyable” to see Nixon take cost on set. “Easy and insightful and thrilling abruptly. Hopefully the primary of many….🙏,” she added in an Instagram Story.

The actresses beforehand labored collectively on the unique HBO collection for six seasons from 1998 to 2004. They joined OG star Sarah Jessica Parker for the revival, which follows the trio of mates as they navigate New York Metropolis of their 50s.

Whereas it was Nixon’s first foray into directing her personal work, the profession transfer has been fashionable amongst loads of different collection regulars. Somerhalder took on directing whereas starring on The Vampire Diaries — as did his onscreen brother, Paul Wesley.

“I’m actually grateful that I get to be with my fellow actors who’re like my household, and actually dig deep and attempt to discover these moments of their characters that imply one thing to them, not simply from a directorial place. That is my present, too, and I would like each body of it to be nice,” Somerhalder informed Collider in 2016. “I’m simply tremendous grateful to the studio, the community, to Julie [Plec] and Kevin [Williamson], and to the fellows who made all of this occur.”

The Anomaly actor acknowledged that creating greater than 20 new episodes every season was a “formidable” process for everybody who was concerned within the course of.

“With 22 episodes, you’re taking pictures nearly 200 days a 12 months. How do you keep crew morale, integrity and power at that degree, at that velocity, on a regular basis?” he continued. “I believe we’ve carried out a reasonably rattling good job. This present, even though it’s a teen vampire cleaning soap opera, is without doubt one of the greatest trying exhibits on TV. I watch different tv exhibits, which can be large tv exhibits which can be very massive in dimension and that do effectively, and no less than our present seems to be so stunning as a result of we work so arduous at making it really feel like a movie. It’s a movie expertise, and that’s what you need.”

Somerhalder was significantly grateful for the chance to see a distinct facet of the collection he labored on for thus a few years. For Sophia Bush, attending to direct one of many ultimate episodes of One Tree Hill was additionally an emotional milestone.

“I burst into tears and acknowledged what a tremendous honor that was to be trusted with that,” she informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2012. “Every thing was actually essential and the whole lot was actually useful. As a result of I knew that it was the final probability that I used to be going to have to inform these tales and to honor these characters and to actually present their relationships. It simply felt supremely essential.”

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