Katherine McNamara is currently starring in CBS All Access s adaptation of Stephen King s The Stand as Julie Lawry, a small-town girl with a wild streak who also happens to be a not-so-great person. It makes the character a good fit for Randall Flagg s (Alexander Skarsgard) group of survivors in [.]
The Stand: How Fear and Loathing in New Vegas Differs From Stephen King s Book
The fifth episode of
The Stand debuted on CBS All Access on Thursday with Fear and Loathing in New Vegas taking viewers into Randall Flagg s (Alexander Skarsgard) stronghold for the first time. At the same time, things continued to develop for those in Mother Abagail s (Whoopi Goldberg) Boulder Free Zone after spies were sent off at the end of The House of the Dead last week. As has been the case with previous episodes of
The Stand, there are some significant differences between Stephen King s book and the series and we re breaking down some of the major ones we spotted as the story begins to move even closer to the showdown between good and evil.
The Stand: Katherine McNamara Sees Her Julie Lawry Role as An Opportunity for Good
While viewers of CBS All Access
The Standgot a taste of how distasteful wild child Julie Lawry could be when the character debuted in the series fourth episode, The House of the Dead , it was this week s Fear and Loathing in New Vegas that really drove home how disturbing and awful the young woman is. Played by
Arrow star Katherine McNamara, Julie is manipulative, crass, and even cruel, mocking those who are different or less fortunate than she is while also turning a blind eye to suffering. She s exactly the sort of person you d expect to heed the call of the devilish Randall Flagg. But for McNamara, while Julie is a terrible example of humanity, she sees the good in playing her, hoping to use the opportunity to guide people to simply be better.
Robert Falconer
Kat McNamara did not spend 2020 learning to crochet or baking banana bread over and over and over again. Instead, the 25-year-old actress filmed a horror movie from home, started development on a YA adaptation, appeared at virtual fan conventions, and plotted where her career goes next as she looks to explore what she calls “new avenues of her psyche.”
But the pandemic escapes no one, so we’re meeting over Zoom. “I have tried to make the best of it, being the stubborn optimist I am,” she laughs as we both admit 2020 was not the year either of us planned for.
CBS All Access s The Stand is the latest adaptation of the iconic Stephen King novel to hit the small screen, but for Katherine McNamara, who plays Julie Lawry in the nine-episode series, it may be the most complete version yet. In a new featurette highlighting this latest adaptation, McNamara [.]