According to Stenberg, that energy dictated all of the acting in the show.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You have to speak quite a bit of French in this role.
Did you have experience with the language beforehand?
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STENBERG:[Laughs] Um, no, I had zero experience with French.
And acting and doing it in a language that I didn’t speak was definitely hard.
But it’s also so cool.
Definitely was not fluent in speaking back, but I was able to interpret what people were saying generally.
I just worked with a dialect coach.
Her name was Dany [Hericourt].
So she was juggling a lot.
And she was such an integral part of the crew and of the production.
I think Andre was in a much more difficult position.
You mentioned how international this show is.
What was the vibe like on set with all of the different backgrounds and cultures and all of that?
It was a really enriching, diverse, kinetic energy.
It was just so alive with culture.
It was really incredible.
That comes across on the show, too.
I think I counted at one point five different languages being spoken.
It was so cool.
That energy dictated the set so much.
So there was a lot of improv then?
I would say most of it is improv.
Maybe not most, but when I watched it, I see maybe like 60 percent improv.
And Julie grows so much through the course of the eight episodes.
I had to kind of allow her to unfurl.
And I think it manifests in the show.
That felt like the most important thing to do with her.
What is your biggest takeaway from your experience on the show?
There are so many things I take away from it.
It was a real challenge, especially thinking about our second unit, which was directed by Houda Benyamina.
That was a new kind of challenge.
Houda pushed me in ways that I had never been pushed before.
That was a really big challenge and I’ll always carry that experience with me.
The Eddyis now streaming on Netflix.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
