Roar Cast and Creative Team on Adapting the Genre Bending Anthology

We were thrilled to discuss the Apple TV+ anthology series Roar with cast members Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Alison Brie Merritt Wever along with creators and showrunners Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.  

As a producer on the series, Kidman was one of the first to read the book and see the potential for an anthology series which could tell a series of unique stories through each episode.  They all shared how they wanted to break boundaries in the way they told stories whether it was a woman attempting to solve her own murder, an emotional look at a mother feeling torn between family and work in trying to succeed at both, a woman who eats photographs to revisit memories or even a woman falling in love with a duck.  

They shared details on how they worked to film each of these stories to create sumptuously visual episodes for the audience from the use of rice paper and marzipan to make it so that photographs could actually be consumed, to why it was important to have a live duck on set for scenes throughout filming Merrti Wever’s episode.  

Watch the full conversation below.

Q&A on the series Roar with co-showrunner/executive producer/writer/director of episode 5 Liz Flahive, co-showrunner/executive producer/writer Carly Mensch, actor & executive producer Nicole Kidman, and actors Cynthia Erivo, Alison Brie, and Merritt Wever. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company.

Based on a book of short stories by Cecelia Ahern, this genre-bending anthology series weaves together eight darkly comedic feminist fables that take unexpected approaches to subjects like gender roles, autonomy and identity.