Ronan Farrow revealed in diverse Studio Audible presented at Sundance that he was the person who gently pushed his mother, Mia Farrow, into acting. Farrow spent last fall on Broadway opposite Patti LuPone in Jane Silverman’s play “The Roommate.” Before that, she had a supporting run on the Ryan Murphy-produced Netflix series “The Watcher.” But she has been off our screens for nearly a decade.
“I look at a career like my mother’s and it’s an incredible talent,” says Ronan. Miscellaneous Tatiana Segal. “I have directors and writers in my generation who are obsessed with her body of work and want her to share it and share her talent. Understandably, she’s gone through periods of time where she’s reluctant to get back into it. Lord knows she’s been gone in this industry, and also on the dark side of it. (Get her acting again) Had some conversation.”
Ronan says that after Mia’s success on Broadway and the reviews it won, she may have once again caught the acting bug.
“I’ve had a lot of actors come up to me and say, ‘That’s one great performance,'” he adds. “I’m happy to say that, while I gently nudged her and she said, ‘I’ll read the script, and if it’s good, this is worth doing,’ she’s out there somewhere.” If this is the right thing and the rich, fulfilled part then you will say yes this is a gift to all of us.”
So what will Mia do next? Ronan narrates diverse He Loved His Mother will pop up in the upcoming season of Hulu’s comedy series “Only Murders on the Block.”
Farrow is in Park City with Audible as host of “Not a Very Good Killer.” The journalist signed a multi-project deal with the company earlier this year. The show is described as a “podcast investigating wild type,” and is released on March 20.
Based on several years of reporting, “Not a Very Good Killer” follows Farrow as he sets out to examine the political premise and instead stumbles upon a series of cold cases in one of the richest gated communities in America — and an “explosive relationship” with “the colorful central source who “He holds the key to solving it.”
Farrow’s projects for Audible join a growing list of podcast reporting from Audible including Jon Ronson’s “The Debutante,” Leon Neyfakh’s “Think: Michael Jackson” and Prologue Projects, and the “Backfired” series.