She’s going to work for some truly nightmarish people, because fashion is a very evil industry. Where will Jill fit in, in the fashion industry? I think she’s going to do a lot of bitch work! I think she’s going to be bossed around. Jill's style is late seventies merging into early eighties. Although she doesn’t dress similarly to her during the show, her style icon is Jane Birkin. Her father passed away several years prior, and her mom has been going out on dates to places like the Rainbow Room. I imagine her being influenced by being around her mom-a fabulous, single woman in the eighties. The one thing she can be credited for is her work ethic. How do you imagine Jill got into fashion and fashion design initially? I think fashion is something you’re born with. The older she gets, the more grateful she’s going to be for it. I think Jill, whether she likes it or not, is an absolute product of her environment. There’s something about these smaller, working class towns that can infuse one’s entire being. The more she ventures away from her hometown, the more special it will become. Ed is someone who takes where he’s from wherever he goes, and Jill is the same. The romance of the place that she’s from hasn’t quite struck her yet.
What is Jill’s relationship to the neighborhood she grew up in on Long Island? Jill is cool and easygoing, but she’s kind of embarrassed by the fact that she’s so Long Island, and that her mother is so Long Island. Story + Rain sat down with the beautiful and talented actor on the rise, who also is an outspoken activist for women’s rights and queer representation, to hear all about what makes her “ultimate coolgirl” character, Jill, tick. A testament to the perfection in the Long Island accent she delivers in the role? Burns asked her to drop it during an initial audition, as a test, to see if it was an accent she could shake. Working with Burns is exciting, Caitlin explains, and so is her juicy role as Jill: an aspiring fashion designer living at home but working in The City, in her first fashion job, a corporate one, where her heavy accent is heavily taunted. He trusts his actors, and leads by being both "candid and open”. “He understands what you need in order to get to the place he’s asking you to go”, Caitlin tells us. After all, he's been one himself for most of his own career. Having collaborated with Burns before, on the film Summertime, she adores working with the visionary writer-director for many reasons, namely because he “makes life easy” for his actors.
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Stasey feels it was for the better she believes that New York City in season one of the series “feels like this mythical place that exists just beyond the core characters’ scope, vision, and experience". The Covid-19 pandemic precluded the production from filming in the city, so Burns had to rewrite the first season, filling it with scenes that take place in “the neighborhood”. You would swear Australian actor Caitlin Stasey is from Long Island by the accent she uses to portray Jill Shore in Edward Burns’ new nostalgic dramedy for EPIX, Bridge + Tunnel, set in the early eighties, in, you guessed it: Long Island and New York City.
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