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After the hurricane (Five days at the Memorialin the original) is one of the strong bets of AppleTV For this season. Based on real events, its protagonists are the doctors and nurses of the intensive care unit at Memorial Medical Center, New Orleans, who try to save patients during Hurricane Katrina when the facilities lose energy for 5 days. Vera Famiga (The spell) and Cherry Jones (24, Succession) are the protagonists.
And they both decided to talk to them Clarione in joint Zoom, one sitting next to the other.
The creators of After the hurricane are two heavyweights of the serial entertainment industry: Carlton Cuse (per lost won an Emmy as a producer) and John Ridley, who won the Oscar for Best Non-Original Screenplay for 12 years a slaveand was producer of American crime.
Vera Farmiga, at the premiere of “After the hurricane” (“Five Days at Memorial”) this week. AP photo
The 8-episode series, which debuts Friday, August 12 on Apple TV, is based on the best-selling book Five days at the Memorial: life and death in a storm-ravaged hospitalby Sheri Fink.
To break the ice, although both stars were predisposed and friendly, when asked what knowledge they have of Argentina, it is Vera who surprises.
Farmiga was Lorraine Warren in the “Conjuring” saga. But she also starred with George Clooney in “Nonstop Love”. And in “L’orfano”. It’s inside…
“My father grew up there for 17 years,” he says, to his colleague and reporter’s surprise. “Yes. My father was seven when he left Ukraine, he went first to Belgium and then from nine until, you have to count … He lived in Buenos Aires for 17 years and I can’t wait to take him back. . He hasn’t been back since, so I’m looking forward to the opportunity to bring my father back to Buenos Aires, “he says.
-And you, Cherry, do you know anything about Argentina?
– Cherry Jones: Only my friends love to go there.
Cherry Jones, hospital accident commander. She openly declared her homosexuality of hers as soon as she started her acting career. Apple TV photo
-Vera Farmiga: I want a very good asado (asado says it in Spanish) and chimichuri (with only one r) as my father ate. And I want to tango.
Nobility obliges, we agree that if they come here I will cook them a barbecue and let’s start talking about the series.
-Where were you when the hurricane hit in August 2005?
– True: I was very safe on my couch in upstate New York, watching, watching, glued to the TV, watching the hurricane go down …
Vera Farmiga plays Anna Pou, one of the doctors who had to make decisions in the hospital after Hurricane Katrina.
-Cherry: And I was putting on a show on Broadway and coming home every night and looking at every photo I could and reading every article on New York Times from. I was just horrified. And we all followed what was happening waiting, waiting, waiting …
– True:… help for …
-Cherry: The “cavalry” was coming, and they didn’t, apart from the Coast Guard, which was amazing, everything they did, but they were completely overwhelmed.
Vera Farmiga and series showrunner Carlton Cuse at the Los Angeles premiere. They had previously worked together in “Bates Motel”. AFP photo
-And did you have the opportunity to speak with the people you play on the show, Dr. Anna Pou and Susan Mulderick, Memorial Medical Center Incident Commander?
– True: No, I have not met any of the characters in real life, nor have we met with them. It just wasn’t part of the plan. They wanted us to focus strategically and specifically on Sheri Fink’s book. And there was her book, which was like our Bible. We live, we did everything according to the rules. And that was our greatest source, our best resource.
“I find it less confusing if you just focus on the character that was written for you,” Cherry replied to Clarín: she didn’t know the real character she plays.
-Cherry: It is that this was a dramatization and not a docudrama. And speaking for myself, whenever you do something that is dramatized by a book, sometimes I don’t even read the book because you’re not doing it. You’re making something out of what a playwright or screenwriter has created. So I find it less confusing if you just focus on the character that was written for you. I did read Sheri Fink though – I actually listened to Sherri Fink’s book – and it was great.
-What did John Ridley ask you as showrunner? I mean specific and not general things.
– True: The first thing they asked us, do you remember? Of course, it was one of the first premises, and then I thought it was such a beautiful thing to do, to be established as a sacred space. You remember John and Carlton talking about the importance of the attitudes we brought to the table, the behaviors, energies and our intentions that would have required them to be positive and holy, in a way. And from the very beginning they established it without any effort.
The actions take place in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina leaves Memorial Medical Center without electricity.
-Cherry: Because they are both great gentlemen.
Euthanasia
-And what is your personal position on euthanasia? Had they ever asked him before the series?
-Cherry: I do. I’ve thought about it a lot and I just know what I’d like them to do to me. I can’t imagine all the different ramifications of all the different types of euthanasia. My wife is Swiss and that’s it.
I know if I was old and old and I was in a bed and it was 110 degrees and I was in pain, I would pray that there was an angel who would give me a shot of something that would put me at ease, even if I did Don’t wake up later. I have no doubts about it. But that’s just my life, my feeling ….
The series has 8 chapters and a major production display.
– True: It’s hard enough to decide, you know, what to put in a will (laughs). I haven’t gotten to that point yet. (Already serious) I hope they created the most miraculous stem cell, I guess. Grab a stem cell cocktail and fix me, right? I do not know. I really do not know.
-Cherry: I just remember my mom always said it’s a shame we can’t do for ourselves what we do for our pets.
– True: Yes, yes. We sacrifice our pets. It is legal. Yup.
Vera and Freddie Highmore, mother and Norman Bates in “Bates Motel”. “We are like a family, in fact he is my son’s godfather,” she told Clarín.
-Both have starred in successful series in the past and for which they have been awarded. I mean “Bates Motel”, “24”, “Succession”, “The Handmaid’s Tale”. What memories do you have of them?
– True: So many wonderful memories. I mean, di Bates Motel you mentioned, it’s another Carlton Cuse production, and he knows how to pick projects, he knows how to bring together a bunch of wonderful people who become a family. Of Bates MotelI think we will forever be more than one family. Freddie Highmore is part of my family. In fact, he is my son’s godfather. And, for example, my husband is Freddie’s surrogate father, and we’re trying to get him to move into our neighborhood.
-Cherry: Oh that’s so cute …
Jones was US President Allison Taylor on “24,” the series starring Kiefer Sutherland for which she won the first of her three Emmys.
– True: Yes, but the best memories are always, in reality, the friendships you create, the ones you meet. The healthiest and happiest partnerships are the most memorable.
-Cherry: And I think, for me, in particular, if it’s something you’ve been doing for a long time, 24 it was the first and only TV series I’ve done for so long. And the day I walked on that set they were very thoughtful and thoughtful of me. they made me…
– True: Feel like the president.
-Cherry: And it was, and I think they were doing it on purpose. And most of all it worked because, of course, I was terrified. But what I take away from that experience is that team, because it’s the one who stays there 16 hours a day. And they were great. And by the time I got into the program, deaths, births, marriages and divorces had already happened.
Cherry Jones in “Succession”, where she faced Nan Pierce. “I was blown away, you know, by this horrible family,” she says of the Roys.
-And with “Succession”?
-Cherry: And then with SuccessionI just said “I will”. I had already seen the first season of Succession, and I met a lot of people from that show, like J. Smith-Cameron, who plays Gerri. And I remember walking into that set and being like, “Oh, there’s Roman (by Kieran Culkin) there’s Logan (by Brian Cox),” I was blown away, you know, by this horrible family. (Laugh).
Do you usually watch TV series? What are your favorites, current or historical?
– True: No, and I must confess that you know what I just saw? game of Thrones. After all these years I finally sat down and looked at it and had the time of my life !!! I love that program. I arrived very late in Game…but it was one of those programs … You saw game of Thrones?
-Cherry: I was just going to say, you know what? I actually only started seeing last year …
– True: Which?
-Cherry: Golden girls.
Vera: Ahhhh !!! i used to see, Golden girls, It’s epic. It’s from Shakespeare. And I’ll see the prequel Game…
-Cherry: But you should talk about our series …
And with the new promise of having a barbecue for Vera, her father and Cherry if they come to Argentina, we close Zoom.
“Thank you!” Vera says in Spanish. “I can’t believe your dad …” she starts Cherry telling him, before the camera turns off.
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
