Julie Delpy is taking on another medium. The prolific multi-hyphenate is set to write, exec produce, and star in a dramedy series that will air on Canal+ in France and Netflix around the rest of the globe. Deadline confirmed the news.
Tentatively titled “On the Verge,” the 12-episode project is set in LA and centers on four moms, one of whom is played by Delpy. The protagonists “are all fighting to be authentic to themselves, to take risks, and to leave whatever it is that is no longer working for them,” the source hints. “These characters choose to make this point in their life an opportunity for reinvention, an opportunity to finally create a life of true meaning for themselves.”
Filming will kick off May in LA.
Best known for her work on the big screen, Delpy starred in the “Before Sunrise” trilogy and received Oscar nods for co-writing its second and third installments, “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight.” Delpy launched her career as an actress but has since written and directed a number of features, including “Lolo,” “2 Days in New York,” and “The Countess.” Most recently, she wrote, directed, and starred in family drama “My Zoe.”
Delpy’s most notable TV role to date has been playing a recurring character on “ER.” She portrayed Nicole in the medical drama’s eighth season, which aired in 2001.
When we asked Delpy her advice for other women directors she said, “Freeze your eggs — not a joke — because it will take you four times the time and energy that it will take a man. By the time you’ll be able to make your first film, most likely you will be too old to have a family or barely make it. If you have a family before you make your first film, you better have the right support around you because you might not be able to go off for four months and do your film,” she observed. “Maybe I’m exaggerating a bit, but that was my experience. Hopefully, things are a little better now.”
Delpy explained, “I wrote my first script at 16, went to film school in my early 20s, and directed my first film at 36. My journey took 20 years to finally be given less than a million euros to make ‘2 Days in Paris’ — after an Oscar nomination as a writer, and a 20-plus years career as an actress.”
