Coates spoke to Bleeding Cool about the cerebral nature of the film, working with her father and co-star Kim Coates and breaking down her role as the therapist, Laila.
Brenna Coates in Neon Lights (2022) Image courtesy of Momentum Pictures
BC: What intrigued you about Neon Lights?
Brenna Coates: The script, I couldn't believe it I respected it[...]
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So that was the beginning.
Dana Abraham and Kim Coates in Neon Lights (2022) Image courtesy of Momentum Pictures
BC: How did you work with Dana on getting the psychological aspects down?
Heydari: A subject like this, I wouldn't just approach it empty-handed I did my due diligence and reached out to many practitioners in the field that[...]
Abraham spoke to Bleeding Cool about working with director and writing partner (Rouzbeh Heydari), how important casting Kim Coates was to making the project work, and how Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight also shaped Clay.
Dana Abraham in Neon Lights (2022) Image courtesy Momentum Pictures
Bleeding Cool: What's the inspiration behind 'Neon Lights?
Dana Abraham: Rouzbeh and[...]
Kim Coates has never seen or been a part of anything as cerebral as the indie psychological thriller Neon Lights from Momentum Pictures The film follows a tech tycoon Clay (Dana Abraham), who retreats to an off-the-grid location in search of meaning and peace with disconnected siblings and their offspring, only to be caught in[...]
Kim Coates is one of a handful of core cast members to appear in all 92 episodes of the FX crime drama Sons of Anarchy The actor plays Alexander "Tig" Trager, the one-time Sergeant-at-Arms turned Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, promoted by Filip "Chibs" Telford (Tommy Flanagan) by the series' end[...]
See For Me is a new thriller coming out this Friday starring Skyler Davenport, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Kim Coates, Pascal Langdale, Joe Pingue, George Tchortov, and Laura Vandervoort, directed by Randall Okita from a script by Adam Yorke and Tommy Gushue This one has an interesting premise A young blind woman's home she is housesitting[...]
As a big SOA fan, when I first heard that Kim Coates would star in the film version of the Joe Casey / Chris Burnham comic Officer Downe, I couldn't help but think to myself what a stellar bit of casting they'd done there Kim Coates seemed a perfect fit for the title role of[...]