In the new comedy Rooster, from Bill Lawrence (Ted Lasso, Shrinking) and Matt Tarses, Steve Carell plays Greg Russo, a best-selling author who becomes a writer-in-residence at the New England college where his daughter Katie (Charly Clive) teaches.
Katie’s husband Archie (Ted Lasso' Phil Dunster) recently cheated on her with one of his graduate students and Greg wants to make sure she’s alright. Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson), John C McGinley (Scrubs) and Lauren Tsai (Legion) also star.
The series is HBO’s most-watched comedy debut in over 10 years and focuses on Greg and Katie’s father-daughter relationship. There are plenty of jokes about Greg, a Gen X professor, being out of touch with his Gen Z students, who frequently challenge him, with misunderstandings leading to disciplinary action for Greg. Meanwhile, he’s navigating how to relate to Katie as an adult.
“They both make mistakes in the relationship. It's not perfect, and they don't always like each other, but they always love each other,” Carell tells Radio Times exclusively.
View Green Video on the source websiteWe also asked Carell how he’s experienced the generational divide with his own adult children, Elisabeth Anne –or Annie – and John, who he shares with his wife, actor Nancy. “I think when your kids transition from being little kids to adults, everything changes, and their needs change,” he says.
“Your responsibility to them is still intact, but it's a different responsibility, and the most difficult aspect is letting them make their own mistakes, as opposed to trying to make everything good all the time, because otherwise you don't learn.
“That's something I'm definitely working through with my own kids at this point. But they're turning into such interesting, fun, smart, kind adults. I talked to friends who have had kids and everyone feels like the time they're in right now is their favourite time.
“Your kids are five and you think, ‘Oh my gosh, this is the most fun. It'll never be better than this.’ Then they're eight and 11 and, ‘Oh no, this is it. This is the perfect time.’ That's how I feel now with a 21 and a 24-year-old. It's great.
“I'm seeing them develop into these extraordinary adults, and we're relating on a completely different wavelength – and I love it.”
View Green Video on the source websiteWhat about Clive’s relationship to her parents? “I think the older I get, the more I see my parents as people, rather than people that are extensions of my needs.
“It's a really nice thing, because getting to know my parents properly and not being someone that just needs food, shelter and not to die is a real privilege. I'm lucky, I've got fantastic parents, but there will be times where I'm explaining something that's happened in my day that sort of slightly goes over their heads, like an internet thing.”
She continues: “She won't love that I'm saying it, but my mum can't use technology. It's actually, she won't. My mum will not try to do things. I do that in the analogue sense – if I can't figure something out, I'll just ask my mum, and if it's something internet-wise, my mum will ask me, and we both kind of butt heads about it. I don't think we'll ever meet in the middle, but that's the spice of life.”
English actor Clive, who starred in Channel 4 series Pure and Sky’s The Lazarus Project, recently thanked Doozer Productions (behind Rooster) and HBO in an Instagram post for “changing my life” with her latest role.
“It changed my life in lots of ways,” reveals Clive. “I'm sitting here talking to the Radio Times about being in a show that we filmed in America, playing an American with Steve Carell. I think the sort of day and night of this year and last year was pretty extreme.”
Clive has been a long-time fan of Carell’s, mentioning that she grew up watching The Office, her “comfort show that you can have on in the background and have constant company”, Anchorman (“I couldn’t believe I was allowed to watch such a funny film and Steve’s character [Brick] is ridiculous and so funny”) and Little Miss Sunshine.
“You can't believe that the guy that loves lamp could also be this beautifully realised suicidal genius uncle in this bizarre road trip movie.”
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