Olivia Thirlby's Very Unusual Casting Process for Hero in Y: The Last Man

Welcome back for a brand-new episode of Collider Ladies Night, sponsored by FX’s Y: The Last Man.

Based on the DC Comics’ series from Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, the show traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. With the world in disarray, survivors struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better. For Olivia Thirlby’s character, Yorick’s sister Hero Brown, that means doing what she can to keep herself and her best friend Sam (Elliot Fletcher) safe while juggling the sting of the rift between her and her mother (Diane Lane) and also the weight of a very traumatic pre-event experience.

With Y: The Last Man now well into its Season 1 run, Thirlby took the time to join us for an episode of Collider Ladies Night. Given how much she’s accomplished over the years, there was a lot to cover including her experience making her first feature, The Secret, working with a Diablo Cody script on Juno and addressing the continuing sequel enthusiasm for Dredd, but we also spent a good deal of time digging into the first six episodes of Y: The Last Man which are all now available to watch on FX on Hulu.

Check it all out in this edition of Collider Ladies Night!

Listen to the conversation uncut here: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/coll...

00:00 Cast Superlatives
02:18 Dicey Questions
04:29 Olivia's First Film
06:15 Juno
07:51 The Last Man

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This article is sponsored content presented by FX's Y: The Last Man. FX is a trademark of The Walt Disney Company.

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