'The Clearing': Are Freya and Amy the same person? Teresa Palmer spoke solely with 'Distractify' about the chilling twist in the Hulu series.

Warning: This article accommodates spoilers for Hulu's The Clearing and mentions of abuse.

Based on J.P. Pomare's guide In the Clearing — which used to be inspired by means of the real-life Australian Cult referred to as The Family — the Hulu drama collection, The Clearing follows a lady, Freya (performed by way of Teresa Palmer), who is compelled to confront her past traumas after a local lady goes lacking.

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Simultaneously, audiences are presented to a teenage lady named Amy, who's the eldest "daughter" inside of Adrienne's circle of relatives. Adrienne is the leader of a cult that kidnaps children and makes use of manipulation and grooming techniques to keep her "kids" subservient — even through maturity.

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Taking position in two timelines, The Clearing miraculously blends Freya's present days PTSD with flashbacks of her previous, told through the eyes of Amy. So, are Amy and Freya the same person?

In an unique interview with Distractify, Teresa Palmer opened up about figuring out Freya's previous, the character's courting together with her "mother," and extra.

Are Freya and Amy the same person in 'The Clearing'?

In the first two episodes of The Clearing, audiences soon be informed that Amy and Freya are the same person. The Hulu series overlaps the two timelines with out to start with divulging the data. Only when Freya visits a much older Adrienne, do the viewers ascertain the connection between the characters.

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Through Amy's nerve-racking stories as the eldest (and Adrienne's "favorite child") in the cult, can we understand a little bit extra about Freya's motives and why she is overprotective of her own child.

"Obviously Freya's traumatic past really plays into who she is, when we first see Freya," Teresa advised us. "I think it's the very fabric of who she is, and all she's known is trauma and manipulation and darkness. And that, of course, informs the way she parents, and how she interacts with people in the world."

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"When you see her and she's so socially inept, she's so afraid she's in such a place of fear, I think the audience haven't really been let into her past when we see her in these situations," she persevered.

Teresa informed us that when audiences are made conscious about Freya's previous, it turns into extra comprehensible of why "she's afraid of the world" and is "overbearing with her child."

What is Freya's dating along with her mother Adrienne in 'The Clearing'?

After enduring physical and psychological abuse as a kid, Freya reputedly has left her past — aka Amy — behind. While it kind of feels she has been making an attempt to raise her child away from Adrienne and different participants of the cult, Freya nonetheless visits her mother.

So, what's their ongoing dynamic?

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"There's probably a little case of Stockholm Syndrome there too," Teresa mentioned. "And I think it's a very complicated relationship between the two of them. And I think Freya's truth is, she has got some love there because that's what she's really only known as an important figure in her life. So I think it's really complex."

"And certainly, people outside of the relationship could judge it, but it's very unique to the two of them," she added. "And it's, it's this dance between them ... a very delicate dance between them."

You can now circulation The Clearing on Hulu.

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