Miriam Silverman is everywhere these days! She’s co-starring in the new Netflix series Vladimir as a colleague of Rachel Weisz’s protagonist who doesn’t see the world the same way as hers. She’ll be back for season two of Your Friends and Neighbors – with some impressive Hebrew to boot – when the show returns in April, and she also made her mark in season two of Landman. And don’t forget her theater work and her upcoming film Sacrifice, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
Awards Buzz started the conversation with Silverman about how she views her newest character, Florence, in Vladimir:
“I definitely think she’s a bit of an antagonist or a foil. I love the character. I loved the character in the book as described and then Julia, when adapting it for TV, really fleshed her out and made her more of this presence. The idea that these women, my character and Rachel’s character, have enjoyed a friendship over the years but at one point, she calls me her frenemy, and I think that’s really the right the right way to describe it. They’re colleagues, they probably had some really fun nights out, but my character really disapproves of a lot of the choices that she makes and doesn’t hide that. She’s very judgmental, very uptight about a lot of it, even though, on the other hand, she sort of presents as someone who wants to be really cool and dresses in this sexy, risqué manner and thinks she’s super woke and really of the moment, and yet has no capacity to understand anything from M’s world view.”
Watch the video above to hear much more about her other roles and how she feels about working on film and television as compared with the stage.
Stream Vladimir on Netflix, Your Friends and Neighbors on Apple TV (season two premieres April 3rd), and Landman on Paramount+.
