Patricia Arquette had a ‘big crush’ on ‘High Desert’ co-star Matt Dillon
nypost.comAppleTV+, was created by Nancy Fichman (“Nurse Jackie”), Katie Ford (“Miss Congeniality”) and Jennifer Hoppe. The story follows Peggy (Arquette), a woman who is down-on-her-luck.
Her estranged husband Denny (Matt Dillon) is in prison, she’s reeling from her mother’s death, she’s a recovering addict and she’s got a dead-end job working as an actress in an Old West frontier-town tourist attraction. “I liked the humor, and also the characters.
I knew a lot of addicts growing up. A lot of them passed away from their addiction. They were kind of near and dear in my heart,” said Arquette. “They were deteriorating and crazy-making, and yet they have beautiful parts, too.
And in the chaos, it was easy to forget that, at certain points. Peggy is such a wild creature.”Arquette, who’s won two Emmys (“Medium,” “The Act) — and who snared a 2014 Oscar for “Boyhood” –said that Peggy also reminded her of her late sister, Alexis Arquette, who died in 2016 at age 47. “That quality [Peggy has] of picking up broken bird [type of] people and trying to help them with all of their stuff really reminded me of my sister, Alexis,” she said. “Peggy can’t walk by somebody who is having a problem and not help them.
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