‘Ghosts’ Ster Rose Mciver about directing her first TV episode

Spoiler alert: This interview contains spoilers of “Ghostfellas”, season 4, episode 13 of CBS’s “Ghosts”.

“Ghosts” star Rose McIver’s very first TV control performance had a bit of everything: a flashback from the 1980s. A Mafioso story line. Ghostly Mind Games. And even a robbery. “It was cool to have bent a turn and a genre for the episode,” said Mciver, who directed “Ghostfellas”, which was broadcast on CBS on Thursday. “We still made an episode of ‘Ghosts’ that had to be related to the season, but it was nice to explore a little taste there and play with the tropics.”

In “Ghostfellas”, Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) a new Arrabbiata sauce wants to add to his restaurant – and Ghost Pete Pete (Richie Moriarty) from the early 1980s comes to the rescue with a unique family recipe. It is a hit, but it appears from the family of his ex-wife Carol (Caroline Aaron). Carol’s still Alive cousin, who has mob-tires, discovers that Jay serves the sauce and is starting to make threats. It is then that Pete finally learns that the travel agency where he worked before he died was actually a money wax front for organized crime.

Meanwhile, Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky) is in the story of B. A room with talkative flower (Sheila Carrasco. She and Trevor (Asher Grodman) use their alliance to try to play a switch in the sleeping arrangements of the country house. ” That there was some kind of intimidation and imminent quality for people who suspected other people, “said McIver about portraying the Gamesmanship between Spirit was not a textbook episode in this way.

Mciver had prepared for years to direct an episode of TV, to have directors and even follow a number of control and editing classes. “My ambitions to direct are always a bit rooted in its social side, and that the kind of amazing creative logistics and problem solution that must be done on a certain day to make episodic television,” said. “I have no delusions that I am this author who will make in -depth cinematic, independent films born of my soul. I really like practical human skills. I love the management side of trying to get 180 people in the same direction on a certain day and be interested in creating the same thing. I like the kind of structural chaos of a film set. ”

In working with “ghosts” show runners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman about which episode to direct, Mciver said that she was given a choice: a where the action usually takes place outside the normal Woodstone Manor of the show (so that her character, Sam, less is involved and she could concentrate on directing) or one in the country house, so that she would balance more with directing.

“I thought, for a first episode of television, to work with my strengths – because I really know our environments,” she said. “I know how we shoot them. I am very familiar with blocking and with exactly which block we have not used, but is within the area of ​​possibilities. And I thought it worked better my strengths to film the episode, although I would be present in many more of the scenes. That asked me to work less completely, from Blank Slate, and to work more from a very well -known card. “

McIver’s episode was able to leave the building briefly: the shots from the 1980s were filmed in a real travel agency in Montreal. “They had to find somewhere that we could shoot half a day that was a close enough distance that we could move to the phases in the afternoon, which called on the 80s, who only needed minimal rebuilding,” she said. “And Zoe, our production designer and our incredible team at locations and everyone found this place. It’s like a relic. It is a functioning travel agency that we literally used a number of pieces of set design. Just like on the windowsill, they still had all the hourglass with sand from different beaches around the world. “

Mciver said that she also felt that this was a heavy Pete episode: “Richie Moriarty, who plays Pete, is also so technical,” she said. “He is incredibly funny. He is an improvisator. He is impulsive and has large instincts, but he is also one of the most nuanced and direct actors I could ever have asked to work with. You can just push him the least amount in one direction, and it offers you something that, although comparable, has a very different taste, and it’s just that it makes him a real weapon. I feel really happiness, he was such a generous scene partner and spent so much time talking to me and helping, so that I could go into this experience and felt confident. “

Mciver is not the only “ghosts” Castmember who wants to direct: she said that she “really encouraged my Costars and had been so happy to see so many people taking the initiative and shadow. Some of them are really adamant they want to pursue And I think that is brilliant, but I think it is good for every actor to make himself familiar with The extensive processes that have to take place on the set and to say your lines. ”

Filming is now packed in season 4 of “Ghosts” – but there is much more to do. CBS announced on Thursday that it had renewed the series for two more seasons.

Mciver promises a big season finale: “I will say, your gamble is as good as mine, when the audience looks at it, how the hell we go to season 5, where that things cats in things,” she said – remark that the Episode on a large note ends.

“The final is always big,” she said. “For example, there is a rule in the script that says:” We see a who’s who of Ghostdom. ” We have so many host stars, and it is very nice, but it held cats! “