International covergirl, style trendsetter, rising Hollywood star—it’s the stuff that dreams are made of. And for Lydia Hearst it’s all in a day’s work. She may be best known to horror geeks from the Syfy Channel’s Z Nation, on which she plays Pandora. And when she’s not on set, she’s bankrolling movies of her own and starring in a few more. Hearst recently wrapped two—Root Letter (based on a Japanese video game), in which she plays a heroin addict, and Sinister Sister part of the popular Lifetime Channel series. In it, she plays Zara Downes, the estranged half-sister to Nick (Brando Eaton) who reappears after the death of their father.
Meanwhile, she’s in pre-production on a vampire movie entitled With Teeth, in which she’ll be co-executive producing and co-starring with Malin Ackerman. In the film, a gamer has to save her brother and her friends from a billionaire vampire at his secluded estate. They plan to shoot this autumn, depending on the pandemic.
“I find myself drawn to more character-driven roles and scripts where I’m forced to challenge and change both physically and emotionally for a part,” she tells us about her process when deciding which roles to inhabit. “I love finding that elusive point of connection to a specific character. And I love a challenge!”
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