Why Dr. Grace Song From Chicago Med Looks So Familiar – Looper

It was 2007, and Hollywood was still over a decade away from thinking “let’s make a movie about a world where the Beatles never existed” and putting out “Yesterday.” Rather, they thought “let’s make a movie about only Beatles songs,” and they put out “Across the Universe” instead.

It was an ambitious project, helmed by Broadway’s “The Lion King” mastermind Julie Taymor and featuring a cavalcade of stars in a series of high-concept, stitched-together music videos. Its story vaguely orbited events and names featured in music by the boys from Liverpool, which brings us to T.V. Carpio’s role as Prudence, who not only wanted to hold your hand but was, by all accounts, dear.

“Across the Universe” may not have wound up being the shot in the arm that the jukebox musical genre needed, but according to an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2011, it played a vital role in redefining Carpio’s career by getting her an “in” with Taymor. Their professional relationship would serve to get Carpio’s foot in the door when Taymor’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” went swinging into pre-production, eventually landing her the role of original big-bad Arachne when the first performer cast in the part wound up with a concussion.