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Apr 15, 2022 · The Woman Who Disappeared: Directed by Channing Godfrey Peoples. With Issa Rae, Griffin Matthews, Lauren E. Banks, Nick Kroll. A woman (Issa Rae) disappears. Literally.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Channing Godfrey Peoples
- 2022-04-15
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Each story in the collection is about women's experiences and how women navigate through others' perceptions of them as well as their own. Highlighting what it means to be a woman, these stories are considered "darkly comic feminist fables."
Development
Roar was announced in August 2018, with the news that GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch were showrunning the TV series being developed based on Cecelia Ahern's short story collection Roar, published in the UK in November 2018 and in the US in April 2019. The project would be produced by Nicole Kidman and Per Saari's Blossom Films, Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories, and Theresa Park. Additionally, Ahern's Greenlight Go Productions and Endeavor Contentwere also attached to produce. On...
Casting
The casting of Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie was announced on March 2, 2021.In August 2021, Betty Gilpin, Meera Syal, Fivel Stewart, and Kara Hayward joined the cast.
Filming
Production for Roar began in Los Angeles, California on May 28, 2021, and concluded on August 1, 2021. So Yong Kim, Rashida Jones, Quyen Tranand Anya Adams directed episodes of the series.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 71% approval rating with an average rating of 6.3/10, based on 31 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "The feminist themes of Roar don't carry smoothly across some installments, but the sheer amount of talent on hand comes through loud and clear." Metacritic, which uses a w...
In May 2022, the British TV show Gogglebox featured a scene from the fifth episode "The Woman Who Was Fed By a Duck" wherein the duck performs a sex act on the woman. The broadcast of this scene resulted in over 200 complaints to the broadcasting regulator, Ofcom.
With Nicole Kidman, Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Merritt Wever. Based on a book of short stories by Cecelia Ahern, this genre-bending anthology series weaves together eight darkly comedic feminist fables that take unexpected approaches to subjects like gender roles, autonomy and identity.
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- 2022-04-15
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4 days ago · Wendy (Issa Rae) is a Black female author who has come to Los Angeles to close a deal to turn her autobiographical book into a movie. Things take a weird turn when Wendy realizes she's completely invisible and mute to everyone in the city, except for Blake (Griffin Matthews), who is also Black.
Mar 25, 2022 · On Thursday, Apple TV+ released the trailer for the upcoming eight episode comedic anthology series featuring Kidman, 54, and Rae, 37, that is set to premiere April 15 on the streaming service.
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Apr 11, 2022 · 'Roar,' starring Nicole Kidman, Issa Rae, Alison Brie, Jake Johnson and more, takes on blunt feminist fables.
Feb 20, 2024 · Issa Rae (Episode 1) Apple TV+. In “The Woman Who Disappeared,” six-time Emmy nominee Issa Rae plays Wanda, a New York writer who flies to Los Angeles to work on adapting her childhood...
