The new series also stars Hamish Linklater as Father Paul, as well as Flanagan’s wife and frequent collaborator, Kate Siegel, as a school teacher on the island. “I feel like any audience member can find someone to relate to as an entry point into the story.” “Not only does he give his actors - especially those that he repeats using and working with - opportunities to do something different, there’s nothing that’s unbelievable,” Gish said. She loves how Flanagan always looks to “push the envelope and be daring” with his projects, and how “Midnight Mass” weaves together the stories of so many characters. The actress previously worked with Flanagan on the 2016 horror movie “Before I Wake” and the 2018 Netflix series “The Haunting of Hill House.” all these events, how they could possibly happen,” Gish said. “Sarah has to serve a purpose of a lot of explanation and exposition, if you will, in terms of explaining and understanding the scientific context for. Gish describes her character as a “bastion of science, medicine and rational thought” on the island. “Because it’s already crocheted with all of these individual people who know each other, (were) born and been together for years, there’s just this sense of sensibility that’s all interwoven that kind of makes it easy for fanaticism and zealotry to arrive.” It is isolated because it’s a very sort of small, steeped in religious faith, very devout island, so it’s unique in the sense that it doesn’t have a lot of interaction with the outside world. “It’s sort of a mythical place, and yet could be anywhere in America,” Gish, 50, explained. The show is set on Crockett Island and follows the supernatural phenomena that start to occur there, leaving its population mystified. Sarah Gunning, the resident medical professional in a 127-person community where most citizens are devout Catholics. Gish stars in the seven-episode series, released Friday on the streaming service, as Dr. “It’s complicated, but it’s so beautiful, too, because you have these just authentic, approachable, accessible, everyday characters who are delivering these monologues about science and life and metaphysics and what happens when we die.”
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