‘Roar’: the feminist tale from the creators of ‘GLOW’

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Maybe because I didn’t quite follow the line ‘Footnote: I love you’ and the other romantic stories that were signed by him. Cecelia Ahernfeminist tale ‘Roar’ It has been curiously removed from the air in our country. But from Friday the 15th, we can explore his ideas in even more provocative versions. Liz Flahive y carly mensch, the creators of the lamentable ‘GLOW’, who chose this adaptation to start a long-term collaboration with Apple TV+. “We didn’t know how to keep up for a while,” explains Flahive via video call. “Everything that came to us was reruns of our previous series. Always, always stories from the eighties. This or the biographies of female inventors, which we didn’t feel either. Then came Nicole Kidman. [en su faceta de productora] With this book and here we saw an option to explore”.

Every ‘Roar’ story revolves around an anonymous woman who is faced with a defining moment in her life, which involves changing her perspective or causing others to change her perspective. “The stories are based on ideas that have been around for a long time,” Flahive says, “ideas that are already present in the titles. From these concepts we have always created our own stories with Ahern’s approval.“. After working on television for a long time, they were fascinated by the idea of ​​u200bu200bchanging not only the hero, but also the gender (horror, western, romantic comedy), from one partition to another.

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‘The Disappearing Woman’ here is an African-American writer (Issa RaeHe went invisible after starting talks with three white filmmakers (from the movie ‘Insecure’). There is also a woman who eats photos to preserve the past (Nicole Kidman); a real prize wife (Betty Gilpin) on display on a shelf, or a young woman who has somehow disappeared (Merritt Weverled by Flahive, who navigated a duck.

In the book, she only listens to his advice in a park, but here the relationship goes even further. “[La guionista] Halley Feiffer saw something strange in that duck,” explains Wever. “The way she spoke was suspenseful and made her think of tales of manipulation she’s had close to her.” The always-perfect ‘Believe me’ actress agreed (surreal, sexual) demands of the story without much thought.” I didn’t think it would be such a big deal. [risas]. Players are given terms and our job is to say ‘yes’ to them. In general, the circumstances are easy to imagine. it didn’t happen this time“.

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