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    Let 'Waves' duo Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Taylor Russell break your heart and piece it back together

    by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Nov 20, 2019 7 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Kelvin Harrison Jr. felt an instinctive connection with Taylor Russell the first time they met, which happened to be over FaceTime.

    A mutual friend introduced them before the New Orleans-raised Harrison would discover how well he'd get along with Russell, who hails from Vancouver. Or that their birthdays were just five days apart, or that after playing siblings onscreen in the emotional coming-of-age drama "Waves" they'd both leave the Florida set unable to shake the experience of making it.

    Maybe, Harrison thought at the time, she could play his little sister in the new film he was working on. He encouraged Russell to audition for director Trey Edward Shults ("Krisha") and she landed the part.

    Which is how, two summers ago, they found themselves on the South Florida coast with castmates Sterling K. Brown ("This Is Us"), Renee Elise Goldsberry ("Hamilton"), Alexa Demie ("Euphoria") and Lucas Hedges ("Honey Boy") filming the emotional drama about a family, torn apart, struggling to piece itself back together.

    "We're both intense people," Russell said during a recent stop in Los Angeles, glancing at Harrison seated next

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