Highdee Kuan is excited to finally be able to share her new Apple TV+ show Brothers with the world.

 We started going into production a year ago, so it feels like it's nice to usher this into the world,  actress says.  We just had such a great time in Austin with the cast and crew, so it just feels like watching it, reliving really special and fun times with everyone. 

The series stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as fictionalized versions of themselves, as they decide to live together with their families. Kuan plays Harrelson's eldest daughter, Olive, in the show.

In the show's most recent episode, Kuan's character Olive goes on a sleuthing quest to help her father clarify if he and McConaughey are indeed brothers - the main question behind Brothers. It's a turning point for the show, and it's a turning point for Olive, whose broken engagement kicks off the series. It's her very own True Detective moment, as her character puts it.

 This is good for Olive,  she says.  We're seeing her go from heartbreak into the thought  Maybe I do have a purpose here. Maybe I can have agency in life again.' 

Below, Kuan speaks with THR about playing Harrelson's daughter, their relationship in show and how she came to join the series.

What was it about Brothers that drew you in?

As an actor, you get the thing in your inbox and you're just like,  OK, cool.  But with this, it's Woody, Haroldson and Matthew McConaughey. Immediately, you think that's never going to happen. I was in Kyoto, [Japan] when I got the audition. I was traveling and was thinking - I don't want to tape this. I'm going through the bamboo forest. But I threw it on tape [when] I was in Korea in a hotel room. I thought,  You know what? If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. 

Kuan has a turning point moment in the show's fourth episode:  It gets her out of her head a little and more mission-based.  Ashley Olah

What was the moment on set where things started to become real for you?

It oscillates. Sometimes, it's fight or flight in the beginning, where you're like,  Oh my God, this can't be true.  I think we were at the t
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