If you think you’ve got Paradise figured out, Julianne Nicholson would probably like a word. As Sinatra, the formidable force at the center of the show’s increasingly mind-bending universe, Nicholson has gone from apparent villain to complicated hero—and Season 2 only makes the mystery more delicious.
With four Emmy nominations and two wins already under her belt, Nicholson knows a thing or two about disappearing into complicated women, but Sinatra is unlike anyone she’s played before. This time, there are CEOs, politics, secret identities, quantum physics…and apparently, a whole lot of gasping at the script.
Sari Cohen caught up with Nicholson to talk about the Season 2 revelations that left her stunned, Sinatra’s transformation from antagonist to something far more complicated, and what it means to play a woman whose existence may fundamentally alter the reality around her.
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