Cam’s got a very interesting arc,” Lily Gladstone says of her police officer character in Hulu’s “ Under the Bridge. ” The eight-part limited series is a true-crime drama adapted from Rebecca Godfrey’s book about the murder of teenager Reena Virk. In the series, Riley Keough plays Rebecca, a writer who has come home to Saanich, British Columbia, to research a book about a group of teenage girls who live at Seven Oaks, a foster home.
She learns about Reena (Vritika Gupta), a 14-year-old who has gone missing after a party. Josephine Bell (Chloe Guidry), Dusty Pace (Aiyana Goodfellow), Kelly Ellard (Izzy G.) and Warren Glowatski (Javon Walton) are the last ones to see her alive.
When Reena’s dead body turns up, Cam becomes the lead investigator working the case, which leads to an awkward reunion with Rebecca — and even more unanswered questions. When the audience first meets Cam, she’s out of uniform. She’s working out on a punching bag with her police officer father as music plays in the background.
She’s discussing options to advance her career. Music supervisor Brienne Rose wanted something rock-based for Cam because she’s “tough, secretive and lives in an interior way.” In that same scene, her dad makes a snide remark about affirmative action.
“You get the sense she’s misplaced,” Gladstone says. The scene isn’t glamorous, as production designer Jennifer Morden points out. The room has a TV, a punching bag and not much else.
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