'ROAR' Won't Tell You What To Feel: Merritt Wever Shares Heart of New Apple TV+ Series 'ROAR' in Exclusive Interview!
It is often hard to see things that are right in front of us.
This can be true of many things, both good and bad. In a brilliant episode of ROAR, this slow motion realization - that is painfully true to life - is intelligently dissected and explored, in an artistically gutting way.
Merritt Wever, the actress who brilliantly helms this episode, spoke to us in an exclusive interview about the reality of not realizing you're in a bad situation - for what, to the outside eye, may seem like too long.
"I don't think, sadly, that that's an uncommon experience."
Many shows and movies (without giving any elements of the episode away), strive to show people a way to work through their troubles, fighting to bring some sort of catharsis to the viewer. ROAR, however, does a particularly excellent job not only marching, but skipping, to the beat of its own drum.
"I don't know that it is trying to help people process. I think it's trying to tell these stories, and..."
At this, Wever reflected and soon responded in a powerfully in-the-moment way:
"I'm doing, like, Zoom after Zoom right now, and people are coming in in five minute incraments, and they're offering their take– what it meant to them, or their 'in', and I think that's what's the most valuable about doing this: Letting people engage with the material and have it mean something different to each of them, as opposed to me trying to tell them what to think or what to feel - especially with material like this, that's so unusual or unique."
The in the moment realness with which Wever offered this answer serves as a microcosmic example of ROAR's strength and impact. The show's ability to get gritty and twisted while keeping its finger firmly on the pulse of real issues is real, exposing, validating, and inspiring. ROAR is one for the books.
Check out ROAR on Apple TV+ on April 15th.
