Meera Syal Interview: Roar
screenrant.comRoar, arriving April 15 on Apple TV+,is a new feminist anthology series from GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch. Based on Cecelia Ahern's short story collection, the show is made up of eight individual episodes that take place in separate worlds but remain connected thematically. Each episodes in the darkly comic fable focuses on one ordinary woman in the midst of extraordinary circumstances, with a different genre coloring each segment — from magic realism to psychological horror to science fiction.
One of the most heartwarming episodes in the Roar anthology is «The Woman Who Returned Her Husband,» which seems pretty self-explanatory thanks to its title. It stars Meera Syal (Yesterday) as Anu, an older Indian immigrant who feels stuck in her lackluster marriage. Given the machinations of her world, she is able to simply return her husband Vik (played by Bernard White, Big Sky) to the store from which she bought him by finding his receipt of purchase. But was he the one holding her back, or is she in charge of her destiny?
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Syal spoke to Screen Rant about the perfect mesh of cultural specificities and universal themes in Roar, and about building a loving but complicated dynamic with her onscreen husband.
What was it that first spoke to you about Roar? How did you hear about it, and what made you want to take on «The Woman Who Returned Her Husband?»
Meera Syal: The first I heard about it was actually when my agent said, «We've had this amazing script come through, and I'd like to talk to you about it.» I read it and went, «Oh, my God. What an incredible script.» How rare is it to get offered a part like this for a woman that looks like
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