‘The Sticky’ Star Margo Martindale on ‘Playing Psycho’ to Defy the ‘Invisibility of the Older Woman’ in the Comic Maple Syrup Heist Thriller

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Amber Dowling Margo Martindale has a long history of playing characters that are raw, memorable and slightly unhinged. In Prime Video’s new series “The Sticky” however, the three-time Emmy-winner is stepping into the lead with one of her meatiest roles yet: a desperate maple syrup farmer. “This is a woman at the end of her rope who finds a way to fight for her life,” Martindale tells Variety. “The desperation makes me laugh, but this was also a world I knew nothing about.” The Canadian series is loosely based on a famous maple syrup heist that went down in Quebec in 2011 and 2012.

Over several months, thieves stole more than $18.7 million of the liquid gold (pure Canadian maple syrup is nearly 30 times more expensive than oil), then sold it to legitimate — and unaware — distributors.

The TV series is a reinvented version of those events, with fictionalized underdogs behind the heist. They’re led by Martindale’s Ruth Landry, a woman who is fighting to keep her Quebec maple syrup farm afloat while caring for a sick husband.

Early on, she joins forces with a struggling security guard named Remy Bouchard (Guillame Cyr) and a low-level Boston mobster named Mike Byrne (Chris Diamantopoulos).