In the new Hulu series Furious, Alice (Emmy Rossum) is an FBI agent tracking Catherine (Lola Petticrew), a serial killer hunting down the people who hurt her. While she’s targeting most men, she has a much softer spot for Alden (Steve Way) as she works as his caregiver and confides in him in a much more transparent, if still not entirely honest, way.
Awards Buzz spoke with Way about how this project appealed to him because it – for once – accurately portrays a facet of society that so many people experience:
“It’s the way of showing caregiving in media, usually not well done, but Liz does it perfectly. She did it in Dying for Sex and she does it here and she gave me a lot of freedom to really showcase that with my character. I think this is beyond your traditional patient-caregiver relationship, where it has a level of romance and intimacy to it. I think that’s a deeper level that we’ve never really seen before.”
In praising this show, he also shared a powerful message to Hollywood creatives about the importance of representation:
“There are multiple disabled characters and they’re just there. Disabled people are one in four of the population. That’s 25%! So of course there would be disabled people in this universe of New York City. That just statistically makes sense. There’s nothing weird about it. There’s nothing out of the ordinary. That’s just the world, and I think that’s the direction we’re finally headed in. Give us jobs based on merit. Stop telling our stories. Stop portraying us. You don’t deserve to. You don’t know our story. You don’t know what our day-to-day is like. We do. And this show and this whole process just raised the bar and it showed the industry how it can be done, how it should be done, and what happens when it’s done right.”
Watch the video above to hear his positive reflections on working opposite Ramy Youssef in Ramy and what other projects he’s excited to see.
New episodes of Furious dropping weekly on Monday on Hulu through the season finale on August 31st.
