On Thursday, Netflix debuted the first trailer for one of its major 2024 awards contenders: Azazel Jacobs’s family drama “His Three Daughters” with Emmy nominees Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, and Elizabeth Olsen starring in the title roles.
Says Netflix in its press release: “This tense, touching, and funny portrait of family dynamics follows three estranged sisters as they converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.”
“His Three Daughters” will debut in limited release starting on September 6 before hitting the streaming platform on September 20. Netflix acquired the film during last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where “His Three Daughters” received strong reviews for its story execution and revelatory performances – particularly from Lyonne, who plays against her usual type as the half-sister of the characters played by Coon and Olsen.
“I just was very surprised, honestly, to be thought of at this level of a team,” Lyonne said during a tastemaker event Netflix held for “His Three Daughters” earlier this month. “This was, for me, a high level that I don’t often get to play, really across the board. There’s also that scariness of jumping off the cliff. There’s just no place to hide, and nothing to hide behind. It’s like, ‘OK, well, do I really need to play another stoner?’ I don’t really like stoners. I like other types of things. Their stories are kind of slow, they get lost a lot. It was like typecasting essentially, right? Because it was this group, though … and how you [Azazel Jacobs] knew it was us. That sort of specificity is very seductive. Because you’re like, ‘What do you mean, and how do you know?’ This is a business of rejecting, going at big swings, like, ‘First, it’s Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Viola [Davis]!’ The same four. ‘Like, who are the biggest international stars?’”
During the event, the first time the three actresses had been together for the project since it debuted last year during the prolonged actors’ strike, all three acclaimed performers praised Jacobs’s screenplay.
“With the sense of humor, and the awkwardness, I just don’t think there’s that much good writing out there, frankly,” Coon, an Emmy nominee this year for “The Gilded Age,” said. “There aren’t that many great scripts. There’s a lot of arbitrariness in art, especially if you’re working in TV. ‘Did anybody read this scene?’ Nope, it’s fine, we’ll just do it like that. That’s fine. So it was really nice to have someone have such a specific vision.”
All three stars are expected to compete for awards attention this year, although a final placement decision for Lyonne is still being considered.
Watch the new trailer for “His Three Daughters” below.
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