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VIDEO Netflix Lola Kirke Wanted Her Character To Take Up Space in Lost Girls TV commercial 2020 • Actress Lola Kirke discusses her character in Lost Girls, who she used to honor all the real-life women the true crime story was based on. Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service with over 167 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. 00:00 Hi, I'm Lola Kirke and I play 00:01 Kim in Lost Girls. 00:05 The film is about a group 00:06 of sex workers, went missing 00:08 in the mid-2000s, and their relatives, 00:12 mostly women relatives, their mothers and sisters, 00:15 banded together to demand the police take action 00:18 and look into the case. 00:20 Oh, Kim is here. 00:22 I play one of the relatives of one of the victims 00:26 and my character is also a sex worker. 00:29 Okay, Kim, 00:31 North Carolina, 00:33 I like Rocky Road ice cream 00:35 and long walks on the beach, and my sister was Amber. 00:39 I really wanted to understand 00:42 Kim's role in the whole piece. 00:44 She isn't in it that much, 00:46 but she is very much a vehicle for 00:48 Amy Ryan's character's movement 00:52 and the story in general. 00:53 If you're here to give me some big speech, save it. 00:57 I already heard it from the others. 00:58 I wanted her to take up as much space as possible, 01:01 without overburdening the rest of the film 01:03 and I was like, 01:03 "How can I do that? 01:04 Okay, so she's gonna be in lots of colors 01:07 and she's gonna cover all of her pimples 01:09 with rhinestones and bindis" and like, 01:12 I just wanted her to take up a lot of room 01:14 when she was there, 01:15 so that you could feel her when she wasn't there. 01:18 I wanted her to be lovable in that way. 01:20 Everyone has their destiny. 01:22 Maybe Amber's was Amber's. 01:24 And maybe this is mine. 01:26 I really wanted to keep Kim's accent, 01:28 so I did some dialect coaching for the film 01:32 with the wonderful coach Liz Himelstein. 01:34 It's a very specific accent, 01:35 it's a South Carolina accent. 01:37 I was like going back through my records 01:39 and my phone logs 01:40 it was, 01:41 it's really kind of like, down here. 01:44 Fun. 01:44 Well they all did. 01:45 That's why they're all so the same. 01:46 'Cause online, you can practically go shopping. 01:49 In Bob Kolker's book, you get such a rich look 01:53 into all of the victims 01:55 that we don't get as much of in the film. 01:57 I got to be quite creative and make like a, 02:00 kind of, hybrid of a couple different people, 02:04 including the real Kim. 02:07 I just wanted to honor all of them 02:08 by including them into this one person. 02:12 Your girls knew that. 02:13 Whether you wanna believe it or not. 02:15 I like thinking about those little things for characters.- advertisement spot 2020