Character Breakdown: FLOYD COLLINS Cast Unpacks Their Roles

Oh, Floyd. Floyd's, Floyd is like a kid. He's in his late 30s, but he still lives with his parents. He never gotten any sort of relationships. All he wants to do is discover something new. And he has this childlike wonder, um, that is so infectious and so, um, endearing. And while he still sort of

closes people off and lives in his own bubble kind of world

What I love about it is that, I sort of connected to that

I tend to sort of like hide away a little bit. But at the same time

the second I stepped into Floyd's shoes in my first audition, I entered with that childlike wonder

and I think that's what Tina and I really connected to. And then watching that

slowly start to diminish as the show goes on, but then seeing him still kind of cling on to it

and then just how his ideas of who he's been changes throughout the show

I play Homer Collins, Floyd's younger brother, and I'm totally falling in love with him

He is the rebel of the family in a lot of ways You know this is a country family Homer loves going to the city He got this curiosity about life outside of where he from He Floyd best friend and soulmate kind of

And he's one of the leaders of the rescue mission. And I like to think of it as a coming-of-age story for him

He really grows up throughout the course of the show, watching what happens to his brother. And at the end, he makes some big decisions about what he wants for his future

I'm about to play Nellie Collins, who is the sister of Floyd, and I see so much of myself in her

She's so strong-willed and just, like, confident, and she just, she's not normal

She's so, like, in her own world, and it's really special to play her, because it's interesting

like, she's the only young woman in the show, and she has so many great ideas, and she

knows what she has to do and no one really ever takes her seriously

And I think that's interesting because I relate to that being in the music industry

And yeah, it's just, it's been really fun to play her. I just think she's so special

I play Miss Jane, who is the step-parent of the Collins children

And I think she's just pure love. She lost her husband in a cave accident

She understands what the family is going through. And they live day They live hand to mouth and I think this family is helping her surviving The children are beautiful and it hard But there a lot of love and commitment

And I play Lee Collins. I play, you know, the father of the Collins family. And what do I love about him? A lot. I, you know, what do I say? He's a complicated man in a complicated situation with a complicated family. And they're doing their best

I play Skeets Miller, who's a little teeny tiny cub reporter from the Louisville Courier Journal

who's been sent to investigate if this is a hoax or if this is real

because there have been lots of fake stories about men being trapped in the cave to try to get attention in this teeny tiny town

He's like a sad, weird, little lonely guy, as I am wont to play

He's really, really good in this. Hey, thanks. And it's been a real blast and a half

I play H.T. Carmichael. We're both kind of outsiders to the local sort of story

And I come in as an engineer, have a lot of ideas that are very, very different and in conflict with what the locals want to do

And so I'm sort of the villain of the piece. And then as you watch it, I think you kind of realize there really is no villain

Everybody's just trying to save this man. So I playing Jewel Estes who just a little Kentucky boy and I just feel so connected to him I from Kentucky I from like 20 minutes away from where this show takes place

And so I don't know. I mean, it just feels like I'm walking into home whenever I walk into this room

Like, it's so close to me. It's so personal. It's really, yeah, strong

Yeah, I play a character named B. Doyle, and he's the owner of the farm that Floyd gets stuck in a cave on

and I love his simple connection to the land and the people

and his sort of the cycles of his relationship to the land he's on

And I recently got to visit the farm that this took place in for real zies

And it was really magical to go visit the actual land and put my hands in the dirt

see the corn that was growing from it, and now bring it to this imaginal space

I play Ed Bishop, and he is the descendant of, Stephen Bishop, who is the founder, one of the main founders of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky

And I am, because my family is so well known for their expertise in caving, I am asked by

B. Doyle to come and help assist in getting Floyd out of the cave. And what I love about

Bishop is that he will do anything for people that are his family or that he considers his

family. And he will work all the way until the very end