VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: ‘Big Door Prize’ Star Gabrielle Dennis On Her Character & Secret Talent

In her new exclusive uInterview, Gabrielle Dennis explained who her character, Cass, is and what she goes through in season one of the TV show Big Door Prize.

“Well Cass is a mom, she’s a wife, she’s at that crossroads I feel like the entire town is in and, you know, it’s like this big question of where are we at in this world? What is our purpose? And all these things and everything around her is changing,” she told uInterview at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Cass’s life significantly changes throughout the show and she is not the same person she was at the beginning. 

“The show starts with her husband’s 40th birthday, and she’s all excited buying him 40 individual gifts and like life is normal and then like there’s this big emotional change,” she said.

Dennis describes how she feels that this change is applicable to most women and how they can relate to her character. 

“I think the shift is something a lot of women, especially mothers, experience sometimes in their life where it’s like, wait a minute, I feel like I lost myself or I have to re-identify who I am,” she said. “So Cass is on the same journeys as everyone else in the show and just trying to find herself and figure it out.”

When asked about what her secret talent in real life would be, Dennis answered, “One of my favorite things is just to make people smile so something related to that I think so.”

Big Door Prize follows life in a small town and what happens to its residents when they have the opportunity to learn what their true potential in life is through a magical machine. The residents’ lives are forever altered if they choose to use it. 

The series is adapted from the book The Big Door Prize by M.O. Walsh and follows a similar storyline. It currently has one season, which consists of ten episodes now streaming on Apple TV+. It has already been renewed for a second season.