22-05-2025
‘Étoile' editor Tim Streeto on reuniting with the Palladinos for the Prime Video ballet series
Étoile editor Tim Streeto was more than happy to run it back with Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino after their successful collaboration on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel led to three Emmy Award nominations for Streeto and years of acclaim.
'There was scuttlebutt that they were planning another show, and so when they asked me to come on, I was thrilled,' Streeto tells Gold Derby as part of our Meet the Experts: TV Editors panel.
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Streaming now on Prime Video, Étoile focuses on Jack McMillan (Mrs. Maisel Emmy winner Luke Kirby), the artistic director of the New York Metropolitan Ballet, and Geneviève Lavigne (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the interim artistic director of Le Ballet National in Paris, and their attempts to resuscitate interest in the art form by switching companies. The meta pull of Étoile is that Sherman-Palladino, who was classically trained in ballet as a child, is trying to do the same thing for ballet with the series itself.
For Streeto, separating Étoile from Mrs. Maisel was table stakes. 'I try to approach everything I'm starting as a clean slate,' he explains. 'Even when I've worked with people before, I think having a fresh look at everything is the best approach.'
On Étoile, Streeto's leaning into the established world of ballet proved valuable, although he tried to avoid recreating past depictions of the art form whenever possible.
'I watched a lot of contemporary ballet on YouTube, just because I'm not fairly familiar with ballet,' he says. 'I also relied on our choreographer, Marguerite Derricks, and Amy herself.'
What he learned is that the stereotype of ballet on screen as being 'dainty, pretty, and precious' didn't tell the entire story.
'What I saw when I was on set watching them and talking to the dancers, and then just the scenes that we had with the dancers, is just how strong and physically powerful these people are,' he says. 'Some of them are tiny in stature, but their strength is just unbelievable, and their flexibility. It's so physical and requires so much strength and dedication.'
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