Further than her role in the breakout HBO collection, Reid has taken on numerous heart-wrenching projects this yr, such as her starring function in Lacking. A observe-up to the movie Browsing, the thriller follows June (Reid), who need to choose matters into her very own hands when her mother goes lacking whilst on holiday in Colombia. “Playing June was the most hard part I’ve experienced nonetheless simply because of the specialized factors of generation. Everything was filmed on iPhones, watches, and pcs, so I couldn’t rely on phase associates or digicam angles to emphasize thoughts. It actually pushed me as an actor,” she admits. 

It’s hard to believe that that Reid necessary any much more pushing, specifically looking at her uncanny capability to embody the conditions of her characters’ life with out finding misplaced in them. When I ask how she does it, she confesses, “I normally try out to action into my character’s footwear wholeheartedly and expertise how they’re experience and experience their specified circumstance whilst also not neglecting how I would feel. It’s challenging at periods to differentiate the two, so I constantly have to remind myself that my character’s actuality is not mine. That allows me escape the sadness, dread, or what ever my character’s likely as a result of.”  

Reid helps make a concerted hard work to remind herself that there are grains of fact in just about every character she’s taking part in, even if she’s in a earth that feels far out, like that of HBO’s adaptation of the movie match The Past of Us. When the critically acclaimed collection follows the fallout from a fungal sickness that turns individuals into zombie-like creatures, it is not misplaced on Reid that the global-pandemic story line hits house, as it is equivalent to what we’ve collectively been dealing with for the past few yrs. She states, “Of class, their pandemic is way diverse than what we went as a result of, but it is nonetheless a related situation of emotion isolated and by yourself and not understanding what to do, and I feel which is so beautifully depicted in the sequence.” She pauses, then carries on, “Even with these past number of episodes, you can feel the unhappiness, the loneliness. That is what many of us felt in the course of these final few a long time. My character [Riley] and her buddy [Ellie] are just youthful people hoping to determine it out in this outrageous globe. That’s what everybody’s doing—we’re all seeking to determine it out amid all the madness and sound.”