Summary

When Zoe Kazan set out to adapt East of Eden into what would become the seven-episode Netflix limited series, she only had one actress in mind for the central role of Cathy Ames: Florence Pugh . “I didn’t have a backup,” Kazan previously told Netflix . “I didn’t have another person that I thought would be just as good. She is the exact right person to play Cathy.”

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