Al-Maria’s exquisite portrayals of sex, wealth, power, culture, and identity allow her to create characters so true to life that we become deeply invested in their destinies. “The story shows the ways we push each other to grow. That is one of the realest stories I can hope to tell,” Al-Maria says.

Like her characters, Al-Maria is reckoning with the cataclysmic changes we face as today. “I’m trying to educate myself and grow quickly,” she says. “I’m thinking a lot about how everything is connected: the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter Movement, the desire for abolition, the environment, and the way that all of that will radically impact the future. How to be an active participant in history is what has been on my mind the most.”

Sophia Al-Maria on Her TV Melodrama  In Al-Maria’s hands, Nin’s erotic vignettes have been transformed into the basis for Little Birds, a six-episode series airing August 4 on Sky Atlantic.

"the early 1940s, Anaïs Nin was part of a literary group penning erotic novels for a dollar a day, amassing a series of short stories published as Little Birds in 1979, two years after her death. “I had a feeling that Pandora’s box contained the mysteries of woman’s sensuality, so different from man’s and for which man’s language was inadequate,” Nin said in the preface to her 1976 masterwork, The Delta of Venus"

“Tangier was a tinderbox at that moment in time,” Al-Maria says. “Each of the characters will explode in their own ways; meanwhile the world around them is going to as well. The way in which the political is personal and the personal is political was always key for me. The interconnectedness of all the characters goes from the bedroom all the way up to the lives of millions of people.”

Like her characters, Al-Maria is reckoning with the cataclysmic changes we face as today. “I’m trying to educate myself and grow quickly,” she says. “I’m thinking a lot about how everything is connected: the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter Movement, the desire for abolition, the environment, and the way that all of that will radically impact the future. How to be an active participant in history is what has been on my mind the most.”

Like her characters, Al-Maria is reckoning with the cataclysmic changes we face as today. “I’m trying to educate myself and grow quickly,” she says. “I’m thinking a lot about how everything is connected: the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter Movement, the desire for abolition, the environment, and the way that all of that will radically impact the future. How to be an active participant in history is what has been on my mind the most.” Little Birds airs August 4 on Sky Atlantic.

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"Like her characters, Al-Maria is reckoning with the cataclysmic changes we face as today. “I’m trying to educate myself and grow quickly,” she says. “I’m thinking a lot about how everything is connected: the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter Movement, the desire for abolition, the environment, and the way that all of that will radically impact the future. How to be an active participant in history is what has been on my mind the most.”

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