By Laura Medina
First on the red carpet, the star of Dabney Day’s “The Gardener,” Melbourne, Australian character actress, Radha Mitchell talked about the beautiful but isolated location up in Cashiers, North Carolina Highlands.
The writer and director, advertising tv commercial director and advertising executive, Dabney Day first came up with the story of an high-pressured cosmetics heiress who did a botanical reset when Dabney went to a retreat, thirty years ago, did a fast then vomited as a cleanse. That was when she came up with “The Gardener” story.
Based on Dabney’s advertising executive’s experience dealing with high-powered women in fashion and beauty, she based Radha’s character on Aerin Lauder, Estée Lauder’s heir, carrying on the family business, legacy, and the responsibility not to drop the ball yet fending off courting, predatory mergers and buy-outs.
Dabney called the cosmetic industry as a veil.
Radha’s cosmetic heiress retreating to reset and recharge is the “unveiling.”
The character, “The Gardener,” is the spiritual guide.
In casting “The Gardener,” Dabney does not want a major celebrity’s popularity and fame to over-shadow the romantic male character and Radha’s character journey since the story is really about her.
Yes, the protagonist is middle-aged woman but not and never an agism victim but still a strong, powerful woman executive breathing fresh ideas for her family legacy, inhaling fresh air, away from the noise.
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