Rosie Perez on Her Role in ‘Before’ and the Psychological Thriller Genre

Rosie Perez portrays Denise in Before. New episodes premiere every Friday through December 20 on Apple TV+.

“Before” is a 10-episode atmospheric, character-driven psychological thriller about Eli, a child psychiatrist who, after recently losing his wife, Lynn, encounters a troubled young boy who seems to have a haunting connection to Eli’s past.

“It really was really great writing,” she expressed. “There were some cool things in regards to the thriller aspects ‘cause you knew that there was gonna be special effects done and so, you had to use your imagination and say, ‘Oh okay, this is going to be happening to me and this is going to be happening to Noah, the foster child,’ and that was so cool. That was so, so cool to do. It was really fun.”