Featurette for Damien Chazelle's Netflix Series THE EDDY Focuses on the Importance of Jazz
Netflix has released a featurette for Damien Chazelle’s upcoming jazz-centered drama series The Eddy. The video focuses on jazz, and it features interviews with the director along with executive producers Glen Ballard and Alan Poul as they talk about the importance of jazz and how it relates to the series’ story.
This series stars André Holland as a character named Elliot who is trying to keep his jazz club from getting shut down while also dealing with gangsters shaking him down for money. To complicate his life even further, his daughter comes back into it.
This is the synopsis that was shared:
Once a celebrated jazz pianist in New York, Elliot Udo (André Holland) is now the co-owner of struggling club The Eddy, where he manages the house band fronted by lead singer and on-again-off-again girlfriend Maja (Joanna Kulig). As Elliot learns that his business partner Farid (Tahar Rahim) may be involved in some questionable practices at the club, secrets begin to come to light that have also been concealed from Farid’s wife Amira (Leïla Bekhti), and when Elliot’s troubled teenage daughter Julie (Amandla Stenberg) suddenly arrives in Paris to live with him, his personal and professional worlds quickly start to unravel as he confronts his past, fighting to save the club and protect those closest to him.
The series also stars Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give ), Melissa George (In Treatment), Adil Dehbi (How I Became a Superhero), Benjamin Biolay (La douleur), Tchéky Karyo (The Missing), and rapper Sopico in his debut on-screen performance.
The Eddy premieres on May 8th on Netflix.