Exclusive: Judith Light talks Starz's Shining Vale
Currently playing on STARZ is the horror comedy that’s part family dramedy, part homage to classic horror in “Shining Vale” created by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan starring Emmy Award nominee Courteney Cox (“Friends,” “Cougar Town”), Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Greg Kinnear (“As Good As It Gets,” “The Kennedys”), and Oscar winner Mira Sorvino (“Hollywood,” “The Expecting”).
The upcoming horror comedy also stars Gus Birney, Merrin Dungey, and Dylan Gage, and features Judith Light and Sherilyn Fenn.
Shining Vale” tells the story of a dysfunctional family that moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Pat (Cox), who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed – turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same.
Kinnear plays her ever-optimistic husband, Terry Phelps, whose patience and self-control will be tested like never before. Mira Sorvino plays Rosemary, who is either Pat’s alter ego, a split personality, her “id”, her muse, or a demon trying to possess her. Judith Light plays “Joan,” Pat's (Cox) Lithium-infused mother, who has long battled mental illness, and her daughter... (who she blames for her mental illness). Joan is vain and hyper-critical, taking any opportunity to recall her prized youth, or belittle Pat. Of all the horrors that Pat faces, becoming Joan is the most frightening -- and most real.
Having had a long career in the TV and theater world, Light was last seen in Impeachment: American Crime Story and will also be seen in the HBO Max series Julia.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales recently spoke with Light about her role in the show.