Two powerhouse actresses are leading one of Prime Video\u2019s next big TV shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Ride or Die\u2019 is an action comedy about a couple of best friends who have to go on the run after one of them is revealed to be an international assassination. \u00a0<\/p>\n
It stars Hannah Waddingham, of \u2018Ted Lasso\u2019 fame, and Octavia Spencer, Academy Award winner for \u2018The Help\u2019, as Judith Burton and Debbie Claybourne. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Though this is the first project the two have worked on together, Spencer says the way they fell into a rhythm was seamless.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were the only two people thought of for our roles, and then we both are active producers,\u201d she told Hosking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are vested in this from different vantage points, so it was easy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Waddingham agreed, telling Hosking they didn\u2019t have to think about that bit at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no kind of work required to find the chemistry \u2013 it was just there in spades.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
Waddingham was approached directly for the role by Spencer and the show\u2019s creator Tessa Coates, Spencer saying they knew she was going to be as committed as she was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing about that role that no one thought that Hannah would not be able to do.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, it\u2019s a role of a lifetime, and my character is a role of my career,\u201d Spencer told Hosking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we both are playing characters that we’ve never, they’re complete departures from anything that we’ve done.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, \u2018Ride or Die\u2019 is filled with action sequences and stunt work \u2013 none of which, Waddingham says, is CGI.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got the bruises to prove it.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I was going to get on board with this woman [Spencer] and with Tessa Coates, with this glorious piece of work, I wasn\u2019t going to be the weak link.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
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