Abigail Cowen Interview: Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2 & Stranger Things
270If you’re looking for a good example of someone who put in the work and experienced a steady climb to #1 on the call sheet, look no further than Abigail Cowen. While she has worked on a number of projects outside of Netflix, if you look at her work for the streamer alone she went from having a few lines in Stranger Things to scoring a supporting role in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina where Kiernan Shipka showed her what it means to headline a series, and now Cowen is doing just that starring as Bloom in Fate: The Winx Saga.
Just in case you need a little Winx 101, the Netflix series was inspired by the Nickelodeon animated series, Winx Club. In the live-action version, Cowen’s Bloom is a teenager from Earth (aka the First World) who discovers that she’s actually a fire fairy. She’s sent to the Otherworld where she’s enrolled at Alfea, a boarding school dedicated to teaching fairies how to master their powers.
Bloom’s thrown into the deep end, to say the least, in Season 1, needing to absorb a hefty dose of very serious Otherworld history and being tasked with accessing her full power in order to save Alfea from total destruction. However, in the process of doing that, she changes the state of the school quite drastically. When class is back in session in Season 2, Bloom needs to own up to what she’s done and figure out her place within that situation, all while dealing with an emerging threat connected to missing fairies.
With Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2 now available to stream on Netflix, Cowen joined us for an episode of Collider Ladies Night to recap her journey from her earliest itches to act to headlining a popular Netflix show.
Listen to an extended version of this interview here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3CtMRCxofr42ohmF5aV46q?si=NIB_dy_fRG6i-7rOiGDzlQ
#fatethewinxsaga #abigailcowen #strangerthings
00:00 Dicey Questions
03:47 Stranger Things & Imposter Syndrome
07:11 Step 1 to Becoming an Actor in LA
08:40 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
11:01 Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2 SPOILERS