{"id":426341,"date":"2026-05-13T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:46:09","slug":"east-of-eden-trailer-features-florence-pugh-at-her-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426341\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018East of Eden\u2019 Trailer Features Florence Pugh at Her Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Netflix\u2019s upcoming East of Eden<\/a> adaptation wants the audience to know one thing and one thing only: Florence Pugh is in this show, and she is absolutely eating. That\u2019s it! The upcoming miniseries adaptation of John Steinbeck\u2019s 1952 epic novel put out its first trailer today, and it is hyperfocused on Pugh as Cathy Ames. \u201cWhen I was a little girl, I imagined I could grow smaller \u2014 so small that the bad things couldn\u2019t find me, and I could disappear, because the world is so full of evil,\u201d Pugh intones, set to swelling musical cues. \u201cYou are growing smaller and smaller, so small no door can keep you out and no door can close you in, so small you have almost disappeared. But you will not, Cathy, you will not disappear.\u201d Now that is an opening monologue.<\/p>\n

The teaser doesn\u2019t give away much of the plot, but the best part is Pugh standing in a funeral wearing all-black furs and round black sunglasses. Not since Hong Chau held a black umbrella in Wuthering Heights<\/a> has a person looked so good while mourning.<\/p>\n

East of Eden follows the Trask family and its matriarch Cathy through generations. A retelling of the story of Cain and Abel, Cathy is both Eve and the snake and is typically seen as the story\u2019s villainess. This new version, adapted by Zoe Kazan, whose grandfather Elia Kazan directed the 1955 film version, will be a little different. \u201cThis fresh interpretation of Steinbeck\u2019s masterpiece will explore the multigenerational saga of the Trask family, focusing new attention on its indelible antihero, Cathy Ames,\u201d Netflix\u2019s description reads. Pugh will be joined on the show by Christopher Abbott<\/a> as her husband Adam, Mike Faist<\/a> as Adam\u2019s brother Charles, and Joseph Zada and Joe Anders as her sons Cal and Aron. It will premiere this fall on Netflix. See just how big Cathy can get.<\/p>\n

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