Five highlights the shared experience each short film’s title character (“Charlotte (Goodwin),” “Cheyanne (Fonseca),” “Lili (Dawson),” “Mia (Clarkson),” and “Pearl (Tripplehorn)”) endures during the moment of diagnosis. If you love The Big C as much as we do, this is a longer form version of that initial pilot episode and a way to see varied responses and struggles. We all react differently to potentially devastating news. Five holds the mirror up and then offers us a spot of hope.

“Cheyanne” centers on a young stripper and her husband (Kenney) as they try to redefine their relationship with this shocking news. Her treatment requires a double masectomy, which challenges her physically, emotionally, and in her line of work, financially.

Now onto the spoilers:

Nikita | Lyndsy Fonseca promises it’s going to be “very interesting” to see how formidable a foe Alex will be now that she knows Nikita’s role in her father’s death and is privy to the birthright she was denied. And Fonseca is champing at the bit for the challenge. “I’m excited for something different,” she says. “Alex is now standing one her own as her own woman, as opposed to being some little recruit.” Indeed, now that Alex is detached from BFF Nikita and determined to dig up all the dirt on her father’s murder, Fonseca says, “She’ll find an inner strength that we all should be very, very scared of.” You hear that, Mikita?

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