Teen Vogue and Entertainment Weekly have exclusively released promotional photos, behind the scenes and stills of Abigail and the cast for Prime Videos’ ‘Every Year After‘, premiering on Wednesday, June 10 on Prime Video. The author and the cast also talk about bringing the characters to life and so much more. Check it below:
In building out the rest of the ensemble, Harris wanted to assign the characters “different points of view” so that they would have both sources of conflict and support. “The fantasy of what I love to build is these friendships that make people better,” she says. For instance, by introducing her best friends both in childhood (Abigail Cowen’s Delilah) and adulthood (Perrineau’s Chantal), the adaptation is able to reveal new sides of Percy.
Every Year After reunites Soverall with Cowen, with whom she worked on Fate: The Winx Saga. “She’s like a sister to me, which was cool to play because Delilah and Percy were like sisters when they were young,” Cowen says. “When they’re young, Delilah’s this firecracker, free-spirit type of girl, and Percy’s more internal and quiet. Delilah pushes her outside of her comfort zone. And in adulthood, Percy actually pushes Delilah out of her comfort zone to eventually confront her own demons.”
The first scene that Fortune watched on set was actually a confrontation between Percy and Delilah in the second episode. “Hearing Abigail say ‘Percy’ in that scene was almost like an out-of-body experience,” the author says. “There were a lot of people around me that day. If it had just been me watching them alone on the side, I would’ve been in tears.”
Though Delilah—who has bought a house in Barry’s Bay—may present as a kind of antagonist in the present day, Cowen says her character has chosen to self-isolate amidst upheaval in her personal life. Delilah has found an unexpected confidant in Charlie, the same guy she has had a crush on since she first visited Barry’s Bay as a child as Percy’s guest. “Delilah noticed Charlie first, but Charlie always noticed Delilah as well. As they get older and Delilah helps out with the memorial, there’s a friendship that forms, and they’re both helping each other fill a void in a way,” Bradway adds. “It becomes a confusing and dangerous relationship.”
Talking specifically about Percy and Delilah’s dynamic, the two aren’t on good terms when Percy first arrives back in town. But that’s not something Harris was interested in dragging out. “I don’t wanna write shows where women are mean to each other,” she says. “I’m interested in seeing those all play out, and that gives good drama, but at the end of the day, I just wanted to see these women support each other. But obviously there’s good drama in what the heck happened between Delilah and Percy that they’re no longer speaking.”
