‘Paradise’ -star Julianne Nicholson on The Great Vri, Sinatra’s motivation and sorrow

(Warning: The following contains large spoilers for Paradise Season 1 episodes 1-3.) In Paradise, nothing is what it looks like, a fact that becomes increasingly clear as the first episode plays out on Hulu. If you have not yet set yourself into the series from creator Dan Fogelman (this is us), it would now be time to stop reading when we dive into larger spoilers. For those who stood in, they would have learned that Paradise is apparently perfect on the surface, but the reality of this utopia-like city is that it is an underground escape for a selected handful of the world’s population. Created as a way of preserving life in the event of a catastrophic event, Paradise is home to President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) and his cohorts, including Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins (Sterling K. Brown) and Samantha Redmond (Julianne Nicholson), alias Sinatra. When Cal is found dead in his home by Xavier, …