Marilyn Schlitz, who’s arguably an inspiration for Katherine, or at least she was for me. Early on, I stumbled onto the work of Dr. Noetic sciences, however, are and the Institute of Noetic Sciences is. “As we all know, symbology isn’t a real field-religious iconography is, cryptology is, but symbology is not. “What really excited me in terms of research was digging into the field of noetic sciences,” Curry says.

While the pandemic kept Curry from visiting the California-based Institute of Noetic Sciences to shadow a real-life scientist whose career might be like Katherine’s, she wasn’t without scientific North Stars. On The Lost Symbol, Curry’s character works in the noetic sciences-which focus in part on ways the brain might influence the physical world. Tyrone Benskin, Valorie Curry, and Ashley Zukerman in The Lost Symbol, a TV adaptation of Dan Brown’s book, which The Da Vinci Code. “There are details of things we haven’t been able to explore in the show,” she says, “which fed me.” Laboratory Science Still, immersing herself in Brown’s world provided invaluable background for who her Katherine was to become. Katherine from the book is not Katherine from the series she’s 15 years younger, and as for her relationship with Peter Solomon, she’s his daughter, not his sister.” Still, she notes, “The series is a bit removed from the book, as we’re setting it up as a prequel to the Dan Brown stories audiences have seen before. She had seen The Da Vinci Code film but hadn’t read Brown’s novels, so she dove into The Lost Symbol in print and binged all of the movie adaptations of the books. “That was something that wasn’t new to me, though the fanbase around the Robert Langdon universe was.” “So many of the characters I’ve played in my career have been based on previously existing properties,” she says, noting roles in American Pastoral, Blair Witch, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.

Peacockįor a world as complicated and beloved as the one Brown has created, it was important for Curry to learn everything she could. Valorie Curry as Katherine Solomon in The Lost Symbol, airing now on Peacock.

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