Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
June 27 - July 3, 2021 l 3
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Rose Byrne
OF ‘PHYSICAL’ ON APPLE TV+
Appearing in that body-revealing suit every day
had to be hard. Were you looking in the mirror
100 times or scared to eat breakfast?
They were less hard than the more intimate scenes where
she’s having a lot of voiceovers and stuff like that. In a
way, the aerobics aspect of it is so physical – not to make
a pun – but it really is that it gets you out of your head
because I’m so focused on trying to do the moves or the
choreography and so on and so forth, it’s actually quite
liberating, weirdly. I had never really done aerobics that
much, so I can see why it is so addictive and empowering
and all those sorts of things.
And I worked so closely with Kameron Lennox, our
brilliant costume designer, and those leotards are just
within an inch of their life. I mean I can’t even begin
to tell you, it’s like a Marvel costume or something. The
amount of fittings I had, an inch here, a pinch there, a
lift here, I actually feel incredibly secure in them, which is
fun.
What did you think of the ‘80s when you were doing this? Did you like the era? And
then have you ever followed any kind of lifestyle guru?
I haven’t followed any lifestyle guru, to be honest. I’m Australian; I think we have healthy skepticism
about anybody who’s telling us what to do. And my parents are very skeptical about anybody
who’s trying to sell you any sort of plan or solution or cure. But saying that, the ‘80s is fascinating
to me. And I had just finished doing “Mrs. America” – or in the middle of doing it when Annie
(Weisman, the series’ creator and showrunner) approached me.
And in a funny way, “Physical” felt like such a great companion piece because Sheila is a young
woman but definitely has come up through the ‘60s and ‘70s so she’s sort of a child of that
movement and yet she’s become quite disillusioned by it, I think under the surface. And this is really
following sort of a feminist from that time and discovering her real source of empowerment ... .
Billy Davis Jr. and
Marilyn McCoo
BY JOHN CROOK
Summer series
Questions:
1) Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., who had a CBS
musical variety series in the summer of 1977, were original
members of what famous pop group?
2) Who has hosted “Big Brother” since its premiere in 2000?
3) Nicknamed “The Velvet Fog,” what singer hosted the
1971 summer series “It Was a Very Good Year”?
4) In 1987, ‘88 and ‘89, which of the Big Three networks
broadcast a “Summer Playhouse” series made up entirely of
TV pilots that had not been good
enough to merit being picked up as
regular series?
5) What beloved (and Emmy-
winning) series ran for more than
four years on CBS after helping
viewers beat the heat during a
monthlong 1990 summer test run?
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