Jennifer Esposito is providing a unique and freshly feminine perspective on the mafia genre in Fresh Kills. After steadily building out her filmography with major roles in the early '00s, namely the Oscar-winning crime drama Crash, Esposito has lent her talents to a wide variety of genres throughout her career, including the action-comedy Taxi, the CBS police procedural Blue Bloods and Prime Video's superhero satire hit, The Boys.

With Fresh Kills, Esposito pulls quadruple duty as she not only stars in the crime thriller, but is also its director, writer, and producer, making her feature directorial debut with the movie. Pulling from her own childhood growing up in Staten Island, Esposito takes a subversive approach to the mafia formula by situating the spotlight on Rose and Connie Larusso, the daughters of rising mob boss Joe Larusso. Rather than lean into the well-worn male tropes seen in past mafia movies, audiences instead follow the women wrapped up in the complicated world of being related to the mob and some of their desires to break free from it.