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One other present so as to add to the queue. GLOW followers have been devastated when the present’s fourth season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, however cocreators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch are again.

The duo teamed up once more for the brand new Apple TV+ collection Roar, which relies on the brief story assortment of the identical identify by Cecelia Ahern. It’s very totally different in tone than their earlier present, however there are a number of GLOW alums among the many solid: Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin and Chris Lowell.

Roar is an anthology collection that focuses on a distinct story with a brand new solid in every of its eight episodes, however Brie, 39, and Lowell, 37, seem in the identical one. “It’s humorous, as a result of Chris and Ali really didn’t have a variety of one-on-one scenes collectively in GLOW in case you really give it some thought,” Flahive instructed HollywoodLife on Thursday, April 14. “So, that to me was form of hilarious, to consider that they really didn’t work together that a lot on our earlier present. However they have been thrilled, clearly, to see one another.”

The Mad Males alum, for her half, was excited to reunite with Flahive and Mensch whereas taking part in a personality that’s so totally different from her position on GLOW. “She’s a polar reverse to Ruth, in a variety of methods, even in her physicality, which was actually enjoyable,” the Display Actors Guild Award winner instructed Collider in an interview revealed on Friday, April 15.

The Roar solid additionally consists of Nicole Kidman, whose TV resume simply retains getting longer after her Emmy-winning flip in Massive Little Lies. The Oscar winner, 54, is an govt producer on the collection together with her firm Blossom Movies.

“It’s simply stress occasions 100,” the Bombshell actress instructed Marie Claire Australia in October 2020 of starring in initiatives that she’s additionally producing. “It’s exquisitely painful at occasions, after which there’s monumental pleasure as properly. As a result of I need it to be good and I care a lot, I get up at 3 a.m. and fear, which is a horrible trait. However on the similar time, I’m going, ‘Nicely, we’re doing this!’”

Roar is certainly one of a string of current Kidman initiatives based mostly on books. Ahern’s e book, which hit cabinets in October 2018, incorporates 30 tales which can be every centered round a distinct titular lady: “The Lady Who Was Pigeonholed,” for instance, or “The Lady Who Smiled.”

Season 1 solely highlights eight of those tales, so if it will get renewed for extra episodes, there’s loads of extra materials to select from. “It was one thing actually totally different and new for us,” Mensch instructed The Hollywood Reporter of adapting the e book for TV in an interview revealed on Friday. “We’re grounded, naturalistic writers. However we needed to push ourselves.”

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