On physical Apple TV +: Season 2 is placed under the sign of disaster

Launched in 2021, Physical brings the 80s to life and sets its scene on the California coast. Rose Byrne plays Sheila, a completely depressed housewife who regains mental and physical energy thanks to a very fashionable practice of aerobics at the time.

Meet with creator and showman Annie Weissman, Rose Byrne, played by Shela, and also Murray Bartlett, seen in White Lotus, played by Winnie Green, Shela’s new enemy, Rory School, played by Dennis, Sheila’s husband, and Dierd Freel, played by Greta. , His friend.

What should we expect from this new season, how is the first one different?

Annie Weissman: In Season One, we meet Sheila in conflict with herself, her inner demons. This season, he expresses this conflict outwardly and strongly. He will stop fighting with himself and start fighting with the world in which he lives.

Filming the first season was difficult because of the pandemic. This time we had the necessary vaccines and everyone felt much safer. I think there is a sense of freedom that goes into the spirit of this season. Sheila feels alive again. I think the first season had a pretty dark tone, and this time the light shines on the episode.

Murray Bartlett: In the first season we introduced all of these characters and so now we are talking about increasing speed. Sheila is in the secondary phase of her trajectory. I’m playing a new character, Winnie Green, who is a fitness guru. I think he was inspired by many of the cult people of the 80s when aerobics flourished. In addition to the physical connection, it also connects you emotionally. Sheila finds this fascinating because she probably does not consider this more spiritual approach, which will allow her to meet in depth her demons, her doubts.

Rory School: This season I really feel like I am going through a real transformation with Dennis. She will finally understand what she wants out of life and how she can become a better parent. He will also meet his wife Sheila demons and support her by making sacrifices in business development.

Rose Byrne: Of course, my character Sheila opens up to the world and comes out of the mental prison beyond the physical. This time, we see that he stands more firmly in marriage and in business. This is a season that shows the difficulty of recovery and getting there. How easy it is to get back into a period of depression and addiction before you get up and start over.

I also love introducing new characters like Winnie Green. With it exploded news commercials, TV commercials that tried to sell you all sorts of miracle recipes to get you back in shape. I wonder where we came from in the 80s, with so many apps available to you in this area.

How do you explain the success of the series? We are in our second season and Apple has just announced its third season.

Annie Weissman: I think the honesty with which we approach a woman’s inner feelings speaks to every woman who looks at us. It is nice to see that many of them are identified with our characters and their travels. This is what they feel or experience, themselves.

Our audience feels this way, listened to and put forward. What is interesting and reassuring to me is that men have also told me that they like the series because it helps them to better understand and appreciate the lives of their women. Some men even feel well represented in our series, which was partly a bet on our initiative. It is wonderful to have such an impact.

Rory School: A large part of the society likes to watch TV series with a woman of great character who fights in every way to achieve her goals and to achieve herself perfectly. Politically I think the show reflects the mood when everyone is still looking for perfection, both physically and mentally. We always face the biggest challenge in life: ourselves.

Deirdre Freel: Viewers should watch a TV series that depicts their lives. For some reason I think the viewer identifies our characters because they are authentic; Even if they came from another era, not so far from us.

Tell us about the topics of this season and what is the message of Physical?

Murray Bartlett: For me, this is a season that emphasizes a woman’s inner strength and how she manages to express herself. This is interesting to me because I saw that my mother went through this stage of awakening. This series shows how we can break free from the stereotype in which society sometimes tries to restrain us.

How to build barriers that prevent us from moving forward in life and to achieve deeply what we have inside. It is fascinating for me to watch how he opens this young woman, Sheila, to the prison in which his mind is locked and how he becomes the perfect woman who slept inside. I think we all go through this path in life, whether you are a woman or a man.

Rory School: We all have an inner voice that we do not listen to enough, this show shows us that sometimes we have to dare to speak that voice and help us to exist beyond us. I believe we all have a lot of doubts and we need to be able to get rid of those doubts in order to actually move forward, without hesitation. “Let’s be physical!” It is the meaning of the TV series for me, never to doubt myself and always believe in the impossible.

Deirdre Freel: I think that when we can allow our body to talk and stop living in our heads, then we really start to feel good. We have seen this with this pandemic that has limited or hindered us. The opportunity to move again really gives us the joy of life.

Rose Byrne: Of course, I have never been in such a shape as during the filming of this series. I give my best with my choreographer who shows me the way. Hopefully the TV series with his ears will give you as much energy as I give him to shoot it. While filming this series, I love the adrenaline rush in my body.

Annie Weissman: In the first season, the theme was mainly focused on the fight against Sheila Bulimia. It was a food topic. But this season we are realizing that his problems are not really and only food. He is plagued by even deeper psychological conflicts. We are therefore exploring the deeper sources of possible psychological fractures that can lead to physical and mental disorders.

This series shows how to have a positive and constructive relationship with your own body and mental health. It is about finding the inner strength that gives you the balance of life. In my case, I found a balance between life and mental health when I realized that playing sports should not be an excuse to stand out in front of others in the eyes of others, but rather that it allows me to feel good, just in my own skin.