‘Ghosts’ Ster Rose Mciver finds joy in TV -acting, directing, production
It is difficult not to root for Rose Mciver. The star of CBS ” Ghosts’ – you probably also remember her five season on the CWs’ Izombie ‘ – is in a good mood when I meet her in Little Ripper, a coffee shop/wine bar in the Glassell Park in Los Angeles. It is owned by an Australian couple, so I wonder if I insult the proud New Zealander by bringing her to enemy territory. But it is entirely in contrast.
“As soon as you get somewhere like the US, there are just so many cultural crossovers between Australia and New Zealand that you just feel attracted to each other,” she tells me. “I’m here at Little Ripper, I don’t wear a new Zeeland flag, but I’m fine! My husband’s Australian, so we had to navigate for a long time through a peace treaty.” (If Little Ripper sounds familiar, I had a similar sitting there last year with McIver’s friends Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the stars and makers behind ‘Colin van Accounts.)
Mciver has carved a pretty nice corner of the world, and not just in this cafe. To begin with, ‘Ghosts’ have been renewed two more seasons:’ I can’t believe it. The number of my friends who are so talented and who have worked so much that is just looking to get a job. It is a crazy time and not lost with me how happy I am. “
On ‘Ghosts’, based on the British comedy with the same name, Mciver and Utkarsh Ambudkar Samantha and Jay – pay a young couple who inherit a deteriorating mansion that inhabited by a wide range of quirky spirits. Through an accident Sam can see and conversation with the spirit but this is a laugh-hard comedy with just a touch of creepiness.
“Izombie” also brought that laugh-to-krises ratio to balance. While I was in some Vegemite Graaf (that was my stereotypical idea for a breakfast order), McIver explains how she really found her happy place in the lead role in a comedy. “I grow up a lot of drama,” she says. “But when I think of the reality of working on a heavy, sandy mysterious show that shoots 22 episodes, the idea of that is just so discouraging for me – versus work and laughing every day. It’s a job, it’s a long hours and it’s hard. But it’s really just laughing with my friends every day. It’s insane to do that for a life.”
This year Mciver stepped behind the camera on “Ghosts” – her first time ever directed a TV episode. “What appeals to me to direct it is just in something that already exists, being a gun to hire and to see the vision that the show runners are looking for and really maintain their vision and that emulate,” she says. “I think some episodic TV directors are frustrated because they are unable to put their own stamp on things. I am:” No, I think that’s great. Let me work out what you wanted to achieve and discover how to do it. “
Mciver splits her time between Montreal, her home of LA, her native country Nieuw -Zeeland and France, where her artist’s husband has a gallery. “They are many rotating plates,” she says.
It is also not easy with a young daughter, but that is where the stability of a hit TV program comes in handy. “That’s why I am attracted to a set. It is just this huge, chaotic operation that you have to try to find some order. Whether I trade or direct, on the set where it is this huge, unmanageable beast, it seems impossible to get everyone on the same page. And somehow you have to.”
There is something refreshing that Mciver finds joy in the hard work of TV production. Or how she found simple passion in the classic art of gardening and quilting in her rare free time. She even made sure that he takes the time to enjoy the shelter of her child, the world over the world.
“My husband recently came to me and said,” Did you ever really look at a red onion? I just spent 45 minutes with our daughter disconnecting a red onion, and it was so beautiful. ”
Here is the small joy in life, such as grabbing a coffee in an Aussie coffee shop with a new -Zeelander such as Rose Mciver. You will also root for her.
