Sophia Michaels
“The Crowded Room” stars Holland as Danny Sullivan, a man arrested in 1979 after a New York shooting, and Seyfried as interrogator Rya Goodwin. The cast also includes Emmy Rossum, Sasha Lane, Will Chase, Lior Raz, Laila Robins, Henry Eikenberry, Jason Isaacs, Christopher Abbott, and Zachary Golinger. Seyfried’s real-life husband, Thomas Sadoski, also appears in the series.
36-year-old Rossum plays Holland’s 27-year-old mother in the show, and while their age difference might seem jarring, Rossum previously explained why she feels it actually makes sense in a June 2 interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“It makes sense when I read the script,” Rossum said. “Candy’s a super young mom, she’s almost a child in her own right when she becomes pregnant at age 16. You watch as I age from 25 to 35, which is actually younger than I am now.” Rossum went on to say that she “fell in love with the relationship between mother and son and the closeness and everything that they’re grieving in later episodes.” She added, “I was so taken with the series and really just loved all my scenes, especially with young Danny (Golinger). Our relationship was so beautiful and so I knew everything that we had that I had lost in the scenes with Tom. [It] was really fun.”
