Like many people on the internet, Paradise actress Nicole Brydon Bloom has latched onto Punch Monkey, the seven-month-old baby macaque at a Japanese zoo who quickly went viral after being spotted embracing an orangutan plushie following his mother’s abandonment. Unlike many people on the internet, however, she sees a direct parallel between the primate — and his desire for love and acceptance — and her antagonistic character Jane.
A key Secret Service member in Paradise, Jane’s cold and calculated ruthlessness has fatally ensnared in its crosshairs anyone who gets close to the truth, or is simply an inconvenience to her and Sinatra’s (Julianne Nicholson) path of unchecked power. In this week’s sixth episode of Season 2, titled “Jane,” viewers get a glimpse behind the curtain, underneath the carefully crafted veneer of relatability, to who Jane is, what motivates her and how she came to be such a formidable weapon.
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