Rose Byrne on the End of ‘Physical’ and Her Fear of Failing in Hollywood: ‘Actors Are So Insecure’
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Rose Byrne is getting ready to say goodbye to “Physical,” as the series ends with its upcoming third season. “It’s all very bittersweet,” she says on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.
Byrne stars on the Apple TV+ show as Sheila Rubin, an aerobics entrepreneur in the 1980s whose business is booming just as her marriage is falling apart and she secretly suffers from an eating disorder. “It’s challenging,” Byrne said in depicting the illness on a dark comedy. “I did a lot of research.
I spoke to people in recovery. I spoke to a wonderful young woman who worked in an ED recovery center who was every day with people in recovery and all of the behaviors.” She realized that the show was handling the serious issue when friends who are in recovery told her that they found the storyline real and very relatable.
Byrne, however, jokes that she will not miss Sheila’s leotards: “They got pretty uncomfortable after awhile.” “Physical” Season 3 premieres Aug.
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