Nadia Alexander Interview: Not Okay
A dark comedy as timely as Not Okay, which is currently available to stream on Hulu, is always something to celebrate. From the mind of writer and director Quinn Shephard, the film stars Zoey Deutch and Dylan O'Brien, who have already gifted fans a previous team-up this year with The Outfit. This time around, they play social media influencers whose obsession with online clout may be disengaging them from the offline world.
Not Okay's central character is Danni Sanders (Deutch), a photo editor for Depravity who badly wants to become a writer but is stymied by her boss' lack of faith in her abilities. After photoshopping her attendance at a fake writers' retreat in Paris to impress both said both and her crush Colin (O'Brien), Danni finds herself in a jam when a real-life terror attack happens at her pretend location. While she digs a deeper hole for herself, her coworker Harper (Nadia Alexander, Tankhouse) stars digging for the truth.
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Screen Rant spoke to Alexander about how similar she is to her Not Okay character, how perfect Zoey Deutch is as a villain protagonist, and what her worst screen name ever was.
Screen Rant: You should be so proud. This movie is really awesome. I really, really loved it.
Nadia Alexander: Thank you.
Who is Harper, and what do you love about playing this character?
Nadia Alexander: Harper is an investigative journalist who works at Depravity, which is a mashup of every online magazine you've ever heard of. What I loved about her is that I was very fortunate, in that the writer and director Quinn Shephard wrote the role for me; with me in mind. Therefore, she crafted the character around a lot of my own personality, and how I would react if I was
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