Abigail Cowen on Redeeming Love and Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2

Directed by D.J. Caruso and based on the best-selling novel by Francine Rivers, the period drama Redeeming Love is a tale of forgiveness and the power of love in an unforgiving world, set during the California Gold Rush of 1850. From the moment Michael Hosea (Tom Lewis) sees Angel (Abigail Cowen) it’s love at first sight, and he knows that he wants to build a life and family with her, but having been sold into prostitution as a child has hardened Angel and made her guard her heart in a way that proves to be more of a challenge to win over than Michael ever could have imagined. During this 1-on-1 interview with Collider, Cowen talked about why she fell in love with this character, how she finally ended up getting the role after a scheduling conflict originally took her out of the running, the huge responsibility to do Angel justice for the fans of the book, finding the chemistry in portraying the Angel-Michael relationship, how she worked to protect herself from taking on such dark material, and the cha