So we were hoping that Starz would want to move forward. Steven Soderbergh: Well, our plan was always to, every two years, bring on a new filmmaker, or filmmakers if they were paired. For the second, Seimetz and Kerrigan separately wrote and directed two distinct stories, one starring Anna Friel and the other Carmen Ejogo. The first season, which starred Riley Keough, was written and directed in collaboration by independent filmmakers Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan. Once again, the series’ hallmark is as much a vibe as anything: tightly controlled emotions, stylish locations, discomfiting sensuality.īased on Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film “The Girlfriend Experience,” starring Sasha Grey as a young woman who works as a high-end escort providing emotional intimacy along with sex, the series has pursued an unusual auteur-driven anthology structure.
The new season, currently airing Sundays, stars Julia Goldani Telles (“The Affair,” “Bunheads”) as Iris, an American behavioral and neuroscientist who, while researching artificial intelligence at a tech start-up in London, begins to work for an elite escort service.
Returning after some 3½ years, the third season of Starz’s “The Girlfriend Experience” continues the series’ atmosphere of icy remove as it explores the transactional nature of work and modern life, this time with an added layer of technology-induced uncertainty.
