![]() She even traveled upstate to watch the leaves changing color, a novelty for the Australian native. On her days off from shooting in Harlem, Greenpoint or Carroll Gardens, she explored her own surroundings in the East Village, taking ballet classes and bass guitar lessons from a local guitar shop. In addition to introducing Fry to an era in New York history, she also used her downtime from the show to embrace the New York lifestyle. I’m always interested in what Americans or New Yorkers think, because you can never really be sure.” “I watched these shows and repeated everything they were saying to try and get the voice. She watched ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘A Bronx Tale,’ ‘Casino,’ ‘The Sopranos’ - “All of the gangster movies,” she says. The role required her to delve not only into New York mafia history and the Harlem jazz scene, but also to study the cannon of mobster films in order to craft an accurate accent. And help me learn ways to own the scene, because you don’t get a lot of time when everything’s moving so fast.” “In our scenes together he’d push me, challenge me and kind of surprise me with different things every take. “Vincent was very fatherly and kind of took me under his wing and was very protective,” she says. She credits her seasoned screen partners - including D’Onofrio - for helping her navigate her first ongoing television production. “They’re trying to find a way to be together in a world that won’t accept them.” They’re a bridge between the past and the future, and between the Italian gang and the African American gang,” she says. ![]() ![]() “ and Teddy are the ‘Romeo and Juliet’ of the story. The show serves as a prelude to “American Gangster,” and follows the conflict between crime boss Bumpy Johnson and the Genovese mob family during the Sixties.įry plays the fictional daughter of real Genovese boss Vincent Gigante, who is involved in a forbidden love dynamic with a black jazz singer. and is eyeing a possible move to New York in the future, stars in the new TV series “The Godfather of Harlem” for Epix opposite Vincent D’Onofrio and Forest Whitaker. ![]() The sweet 27-year-old actress, who grew up in Brisbane but currently lives in L.A. “Being from Australia, it was really fun to transform into this sassy Italian girl from Harlem in the Sixties.” “I never thought I’d get to play an Italian mobster’s daughter,” says Lucy Fry over a cup of mint tea at the Nomad Hotel in New York. ![]()
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