Élodie Yung within the "Lion's Den" episode of THE CLEANING LADY airing Monday, Jan. 10.
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Elodie Yung stars as Thony De La Rosa, a Cambodian physician working in Las Vegas in “The Cleansing Girl,” airing Mondays at 9 p.m. on Fox.
Thony got here to the US along with her younger, son, Luca, who urgently wants a bone-marrow transplant. However his donor backed out, leaving mom and son stranded in Sin Metropolis and forcing Thony to scrub resorts on the Vegas Strip along with her sister-in-law, Fiona (Martha Millan), to save cash for Luca’s hoped-for medical therapy.
She’s pressured to align with mobster Arman Morales (Adan Canto) after witnessing a gangland homicide. He saves her life, however with a caveat: she’s now on his payroll to scrub up his messes — bloody and in any other case — whereas he makes use of his connections to assist save Luca’s life. And there’s an FBI angle within the type of Agent Garrett Miller (Oliver Hudson).
“To me, Thony is just not a personality, she’s an actual individual,” stated Yung, 40, who grew up in France (she’s Cambodian on her father’s facet) and performed Elektra Natchios on Season 2 of Marvel’s “Daredevil.”
“She’s thrown into these conditions towards her will and he or she has to search out methods to make do and survive — as a result of in any other case her life and her son’s life can be endangered,” Yung stated. “There’s this fixed internal battle with doing the precise factor and, on the similar time, there’s strain as a result of time is ticking away and he or she must discover a remedy for her son.”
“The Cleansing Girl” is predicated on the Argentinian hit “La Chica Que Lampia” and was tailored for Fox by sequence creator Miranda Kwok and a number of other govt producers, together with former “Fairly Little Liars” star Shay Mitchell and Melissa Carter (“Stargirl,” “Queen Sugar”).
“It is a character-driven crime drama in Las Vegas, the place the whole lot is bizarre and sudden,” stated Carter. “And when have you ever seen an all-Southeast Asian household on the coronary heart of sequence, because the leads, in a drama?
“Thony is form of our ‘Alice in Wonderland,'” she stated. “Fairy tales are primarily darkish … and, like Alice, Thony goes by way of the wanting glass into Las Vegas and into this very unusual world that’s fully totally different from her house nation. She’s going to do something to save lots of her son, however she’s a health care provider, and the Hippocratic Oath of ‘Do No Hurt’ is what she lives by. Her credo is to by no means do something that causes hurt to different folks, so it’s attention-grabbing that somebody with that ethical middle is cleansing up crime scenes — however to her it’s justified, since she’s cleansing up after the very fact.”
“There's a morality theme [at the series’ core] and Thony has to face that all through her journey, and it’s going to evolve as a result of she needs to be resilient,” Yung stated. “She has to adapt each time to a brand new atmosphere and to new conditions — and survive.”
Whereas there's a trace of romantic spark between Thony and Arman, Yung stated she sees their relationship on a special stage.
“She’s received no time for [romance]. It’s not on her menu,” she stated. “Arman sees one thing on this girl that reminds him of his household; he can establish and reply to her strengths regardless of her state of affairs and her standing. That’s the attraction.
“In Thony’s world, this chaotic state of affairs she’s thrown into, he's the one hand that’s been given to her and he or she has to make that alternative — do I take his assist or not? There may be chemistry between them however I feel it’s past a romantic relationship.
“It’s a deeper understanding of what each of them are going by way of.”
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