Florence Pugh stars as Cathy Ames in Netflix’s limited series adaptation of East of Eden, which is streaming globally and has achieved an 89% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the actress’s third-best-rated television series.
Florence Pugh’s return to television in Netflix’s adaptation of East of Eden has earned strong critical reviews since its global release.
The debut score also establishes career-high television ratings for Pugh’s co-stars Mike Faist and Joe Anders, while Pugh’s highest-rated television projects remain the 2018 spy miniseries The Little Drummer Girl at 95% and Marvel’s 2021 superhero series Hawkeye at 92%.
Florence Pugh Discusses Her Approach To Cathy Ames
Speaking at the recent premiere of East of Eden, Pugh discussed her approach to bringing Cathy Ames to life, noting that the character possesses more depth than simple villainy. She credited director Zoe Kazan’s scripts with enabling a deeper examination of Ames’s background.
I think truly through Zoe’s scripts and the understanding that we wanted to dig deeper, and we wanted to go back and understand the context of why she is the way that she is, and once you open one door to feeling sympathy for someone, the rest really open for themselves.
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Pugh added that Ames is a woman that has a lot of awful things happen to her
while acknowledging that the character inflicts severe harm on others, concluding that she can be both.
John Steinbeck’s 1952 Novel Inspires the Series
The series is based on John Steinbeck’s classic 1952 novel of the same name. Alongside Pugh, Faist, and Anders, the ensemble cast features Christopher Abbott, Ciarán Hinds, Hoon Lee, Martha Plimpton, Joseph Zada, and Tracy Letts.
East of Eden is available to stream globally on Netflix.
