The experiences send him in pursuit of answers that point back to secrets harboured by his own family and special powers he might not yet recognize they all share.
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The six-episode first season dives into a supernatural world of mystery that unfolds when Jared, an Indigenous high school student from Kitimat, B.C., begins to experience an escalating series of strange events.įirst, he runs into his doppelganger for a brief moment, and not long after he’s confronted by a crow who delivers a cryptic message before vanishing. The experience was “surreal,” she admits, and it’s one she’s still coming to terms with ahead of the anticipated CBC debut of “Trickster” on Oct. Instead of picturing her protagonist Jared in the way she always had, she says she started seeing the TV show’s stoic teenage lead actor Joel Oulette in his place.Īctress Crystle Lightning took the part of Jared’s mother Maggie in her mind, and she pictured Anna Lambe as Jared’s friend Sarah. That presented her with a challenge as she wrote the third novel in the series earlier this year. “It’s weird to see someone alive, saying your dialogue,” Robinson said.
The “Son of a Trickster” author, who’s from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations, found that once she saw who was cast in the adaptation, she couldn’t unsee the actors as the characters she created. TORONTO - Eden Robinson says the actors in CBC’s upcoming mystical-thriller “Trickster” have winnowed their way into her imagination.
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