Brand New Cherry Flavor: Rosa Salazar & Catherine Keener On the Netflix Thriller

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers through the season finale of Brand New Cherry Flavor, “Bodies.”] From creators Nick Antosca (Channel Zero) and Lenore Zion, the Netflix original series Brand New Cherry Flavor follows Lisa Nova (Rosa Salazar), as she comes to Los Angeles with the goal of directing her first feature film. After believing that Lou Burke (Eric Lange) can make that happen for her, she quickly learns that he’s more predator than producer and turns to the mysterious Boro (Catherine Keener) to set a curse in motion that threatens everyone and everything Lisa has ever known. During this virtual interview with Collider, which you can both watch and read, co-stars Salazar and Keener, who are so all-in with their performances that it makes all of the insanity that ensues quite a wild ride, talked about why they were excited to tell this story, how acting is like free-falling, that “Keener magic,” why it always comes back to the art for Lisa Nova, the rock stars that Boro was