Joe Otterson TV ReporterAubrey Plaza is set to star in the Hulu drama pilot “Olga Dies Dreaming,” Variety has learned.The show was ordered to pilot at the streamer back in April.
It tells the story of a Nuyorican brother and sister (Plaza) from a gentrifying Sunset Park, Brooklyn, reckoning with the absent, politically radical mother and their glittering careers among New York City’s elite in the wake of Hurricane Maria.Plaza will star in the title role as Olga, a renowned wedding planner whose surface successes mask a darker interior.
For Olga, the pursuit of perfection has become a compulsive survival mechanism as she tries to climb as far from her past as she can.
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