Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Safety Not Guaranteed, Ingrid Goes West) is attached to star in Olga Dies Dreaming, a Hulu drama pilot that was ordered by the streamer in April, according to Variety. The pilot is based on the upcoming novel of the same name by Xóchitl Gonzalez.
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Olga Dies Dreaming tells the story of a Nuyorican brother and sister (Plaza) from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn, reckoning with the absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City’s elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
Plaza will reportedly portray Olga, a renowned wedding planner whose surface successes mask a darker interior. For Olga, the pursuit of perfection has become a compulsive survival mechanism as she tries to climb as far from her past as she can. Still, she can’t shake the feeling that the important people she knows don’t see her as their equals, and this nagging sense that her success is an illusion always leaves her wanting more.
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Gonzalez is writing the pilot and will also executive produce. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is directing and executive producing. 20th Television is producing.
