As a dad and daughter in 'Rooster,' Steve Carell and Charly Clive get to be a little messy
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Steve Carell knew from the moment he read alongside Charly Clive that she was the right person to play his daughter in the new HBO series “Rooster.”“I never felt like Charly was auditioning.It just felt like two actors having a go at a scene,” he remembers in a Midtown Manhattan hotel room earlier this week.
“I thought, ‘Well, we’re done.’”For Clive, the Zoom call would have been enough.“I was like, at the very least I’ve met Steve Carell,” she says.Now they play Greg and Katie Russo in the series, which premiered Sunday.
Greg is the best-selling author of a series of airport novels featuring a swaggering hero called Rooster.Katie is a professor of art history.
When he arrives on her campus to give a talk, she’s in the midst of an emotional tailspin: Her husband (Phil Dunster of “Ted Lasso”), a fellow faculty member, cheated on her with a graduate student.Now they are together and she’s adrift.
Greg, seeing his daughter flail, decides to do whatever he can to help.HBO’s new comedy, created by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, stars Steve Carell as a concerned father whose college professor daughter is reeling after a breakup.“Rooster,” created by Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, has what is now Lawrence’s signature mix of character drama and goofy comedy with a touch of uplift.Carell and Clive got together on the day of their New York premiere to discuss their father-daughter pairing.Steve, how did this project come to you? Steve Carell: I got a call from Bill Lawrence.
Invited me to lunch with his partner, Matt Tarses, and they pitched this idea.It was a very broad idea.
There were very few specifics.What was the broad idea? Carell: The bullet point was the father-daughter relationship.I wouldn’t even call it a pitch because he wasn’t pitching me.
He was inviting me to be a part of this.The three of us all have adult daughters around...