“Ghosts” Star Rose McIvert Appears In Supernatural Comedy

Rose Machiver played an unusually supernatural role in her latest television work: her first major role on The CW. izombieAnd now like Samantha on CBS ghostsA woman who inherits an ancient palace and begins to see and hear its former dead residents after feeling close to death.

The 33-year-old New Zealander began acting as a child, in small roles and behind the scenes, including as a schoolgirl in the Jane Campion film. ᲤPiano. This is your job as a protagonist ghostsAn ensemble comedy with a sea of ​​sophisticated and enhanced performances that have brought him the most success to date.

McIver spoke THR Finding his interest in brilliant characters and situations of emotional interdependence and the seemingly gruesome coincidence that he’s now appeared in two separate supernatural comedies.

What was your main place when you first met this script?

I graduated in five years izombie And it took several years to make the other trifles. I just rubbed another itch, really. at this point ghosts Come on, once again I was ready for the family you will have when you work in the comedy group. When I read the script, I laughed a lot. It was the start of a global pandemic when we had to shoot a pilot, and for the entire first year before we left, I saw a lot of my other friends and people I love not let their shows go on. , and they don’t have studios or strings behind them. The fact that he survived was quite surprising.

How has the pandemic changed the way the show was created and the experience of working on it?

Usually, everything moves very fast: wardrobe accessories, deals signed, you’re in the field, you get that new item. I think it was eight months, the gap between when I got the actors and when we got back to the pilot. As some of us had already been filmed, we started these group text conversations. It really all started again as logistics. “Did you hear anything?” Do you know where I’m going to shoot?” It’s such an interesting sign of that time that [through] Group text, we really started to build that relationship. When we got to the set, I got the feeling of this meeting and we’ve been friends for all these years.

Have you ever wondered about the supernatural? Or is it just a coincidence that you hosted two similar shows?

I don’t know why I behave in these immortal situations. I’m not sure what’s going on with me, I didn’t know I was the kind of person you would be dumped by. I really like trying to justify a very stylized or enhanced environment and characters. This is something that has attracted many to my life. I’m really enjoying this experience, trying to find something really related or available in these stories that could be improved.

Your character can see ghosts and communicate. What’s the challenge of playing a person that other characters can’t see or film without other actors?

The main thing is to concentrate. I work with nine comedians, essentially, and they’re pretty brilliant. This is the magic that is needed in the show and we must save it. And it was very technically interesting. I really enjoy being an actor who works with his group to achieve success together. And when we say it’s an ensemble, it’s not just the actors, it’s the crew, especially when people are improvising and looking deeply at any given moment. The boom operator must figure out how to try to leave the room and enter someone’s ad line that has just been launched, or the camera gets someone to focus at a certain moment. .

The interview is edited for length and clarity.

The story first appeared in a separate June issue of The Hollywood Reporter. Click here to subscribe to the magazine.