We caught up with Falling Water star Lizzie Brochere about her dreamy new drama for USA connection.
Movies have had a strange relationship with dreams.
In television, dreams are often played to undo a disastrous plot development.
On USAsFalling Water, the dream is the story.
Does this feel like brand new territory?
Yeah, it does feel like brand new territory but it felt very familiar.
I think thats what brought me to Tess initially.
Its that feeling of knowing in your bones that theres a truth somewhere and everyone telling you the opposite.
Whether its having a kid, whatever it is, that definitely drew me to her for sure.
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How long does Bill Boerg hold information over Tess?
Were still shooting now and Im finally understanding more things.
Tess writes it off as a coincidence there was a record of her baby.
Is she skeptical of him at first?
How long does it take for her to trust him?
I dont think she ever really trusts him.
Maybe a few episode but I dont think she ever really totally trusts him.
The mans a billionaire, so she has to follow that lead.
You mean close to reality but a little distorted from reality?
Which is so interesting because suddenly you’re free to navigate through them.
So my dreams have become like that in the show for sure.
Have you learned to lucid dream since doingFalling Water?
What do you use lucid dreams for?
Little frustrations that you have.
Tap into those symbols that your unconscious wants to bring out.
Do you believe the concept ofFalling Waterthat all our dreams could be connected?
I love believing in it.
I believing that theres a big iCloud of collective unconscious that we all share.
We just disconnect ourselves with little individual devices and little individual problems.
Do you believe that there could be people like Tess who can enter other peoples dreams?
Yeah, I believe there are people that navigate through them.
In Egypt you had dream schools.
Meet a bird, see what he says.
Use those symbols and train yourself until you could actually be involved in politics, for example.
Theres something about different cultures using those dreams that makes me think you could navigate through them for sure.
When youre filming the dreams, is the set ofFalling Waterdream-like?
Is there something dream-like?
I think any set has something dream like because you create another reality.
So basic of telling a story is dream-like.
Its going into imagination.
I actually find sets very business-like.
Its almost like a construction site because youre assembling these materials that will ultimately create an imaginary world.
But the actual production of it is very business-like to me.
Thats when youre outside of it.
When youre in the scene, of course theres a magic there that starts happening.
Theres really a specificity to the dreams.
How long before you connect with David Ajala and Will Yun Lees characters?
Ooh, a long time.
Its a long time.
We do connect a little with David, with Burton, but a lot of encounters.
Never really knowing who he is.
And then its almost by the end of the season that I meet Taka, Will.
There are some rules for the dream worlds but is anything possible onFalling Water?
Its Blake Masters mind.
What do you get from Blake and Gale Anne Hurd?
I get a lot of Blakes mind for sure.
DoesFalling Waterdeal with any recurring dreams where you have the same dream over and over again?
Yes, yes, yes.
Will any of the dreams we saw in the pilot recur again?
[Laughs]
The hospital birthing dream seems like one that would recur again.
It is although we really gave it so then its a lot of hearing.
It does come back to different effect.
I dont know how much I can say.
What does the water mean to you?
Water talks to me about interconnectivity.
Like if I moved my hands like this, you would feel the resonance of that a lot more.
So interconnectivity has that thing for me.
It still mirrors the sky.
It still mirrors your face if youre above it.
Underneath theres this whole unknown.
What role do you have inRings?
Its a little cameo.
Its a fun one.
We were supposed to do a film together so we did that.