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In Rosie O'Donnell'south first regular Television series role, in "SMILF," you lot'll see her become gray.

Rosie O'Donnell waited until age 55 to take her outset regular series role, equally Tutu, a messed-up grandmother onSMILF.Extra-director-writer Frankie Shaw (Mr. Robot,Stronger) created this semiautobiographical Television set show about a single mom that is adapted from her Sundance Film Festival honour-winning short motion-picture show. The serial premieres Nov. 5 on Offset. O'Donnell tells AARP that, similar Showtime's hitShameless,the show feels authentic to her experience.

Why did yous look untilSMILF to become a series Boob tube star?

I take five children ages 4 1/two to 22 and couldn't become to L.A. for a show. And there wasn't a role that spoke to me. Equally a immature actress, I knew that every bit I got into my 60s, I'd be able to do the Geraldine Page roles, likeThe Trip to Bountiful — the kind of Irish standard graphic symbol I always knew that was in my hereafter. So when this role came upwards, I thought,Here we go! I was stunned by Frankie's unique vocalisation, the birth of a major artistic vocalisation in our civilisation. The reality of an Irish Catholic working-class family unit — struggling with poverty and mental affliction and all that comes with it — is accurately portrayed in this beautiful show. Information technology'southward a woman-oriented, adult female-powered series about a mother and daughter and how their lives mix and don't. It's like a feminist manifesto. Frankie grew up with a feminism that never existed when I was a kid, and information technology empowers her to write truthfully and expose the gritty underbelly of life with compassion, and not with disdain or self-loathing.

What will Rosie fans see that's new in you?

Tutu suffered in a family where emotions were never discussed and people often took to the bottle, rather than address their feelings. There'southward a stoic madness, and my character is mentally compromised, with either borderline personality disorder or severe untreated bipolar disorder. [O'Donnell has been public well-nigh her ain different struggle with major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.] We explore the reality of her loving her kid [Shaw] more than annihilation and yet non being able to be civil to her or maintain a human relationship. Information technology'south very honest, and I felt I could bring a lot to it by dying my hair grayness and letting the greyness grow out and having no makeup — beingness as authentic as I can be.

Exercise fans recognize you lot with that look?

People don't detect me with gray hair. They go, "Are you Rosie O'Donnell?" I say 'Yep.' "No, y'all're non." I say, 'I swear to God I am.' "Oh, my God! Youaudio similar you." The freedom of a 55-year-former woman is to show herself in this invisibility cloak that people retrieve is really horrific and dehumanizing. But for me, it's provided a freedom that I haven't had in a couple decades. My teenagers were not and then happy about my gray hair and looking like a grandma. Embarrassing for my 14-year-old. Horrible for her.

Your kids must suffer for your art!

My kids are suffering more than me. For me, it'south the commencement of what I promise to be my 2d-chapter interim career.

Four-time Emmy nominee Connie Britton plays Shaw'due south unstable boss — and she shows a whole new side, too, right?

I was a Connie Britton fan fromFriday Nighttime Lights (produced by Offset's CEO David Nevins) andNashville, merely I never would've known how freakin'funny she is. We take this scene where she'southward had plastic surgery and I see if she'due south all right. And we did this whole improv of her being high on Vicodin and out of it.

Shades of the archetype comedic Quaalude scenes of Leo Di Caprio inThe Wolf of Wall Street and Albert Brooks inMod Romance.

I was like, Connie Britton! Who the hell knew y'all were so goddamn funny? She gets the majority of the laughs in this series.

And y'all become some tears. Showtime is more than hospitable to tough comic/dramatic material than broadcast networks, as inShameless.

Shameless is one of the all-time shows on TV, an epically beautiful tale of deprivation, mental affliction and addiction. My brother Eddie, the oldest in our family, said, "Yous gotta sentinel this new show!" I did and said, 'Eddie, that'due south our babyhood! No mother, a father incompetent to deal with being a widower with 5 kids — and you're Emmy Rossum, the oldest one trying to keep everyone together.'

Do yous worry well-nighSMILF finding the kind of mass audience you're used to?

The benefit of Commencement and any subscription network is that it's not based on ratings. They don't permit anyone run across the ratings. They bring all this content in similar a museum, and you pay to get into the room and choose what you like. Then you don't take the pressure you lot're nether on broadcast network Goggle box or basic cable. First believes people will pay attention to Frankie'south talent. She'south a heroic feminist icon. This young, beautiful, sexy, intelligent, artistic, creative woman is someone that everyone needs to know. This is her debut, and she'southward only got the stratosphere subsequently that.

I'll be watching. And you've inspired me never to dye my hair.

Good for you! You'll experience freedom.

Source: https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/television/info-2017/rosie-odonnell-interview.html

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