While she received two Golden Globe nominations and two more Emmy nominations for her work on the series Daños y perjuicios, in which she shared 59 episodes with Glenn Close, Australian actress Rose Byrne remains for now one of the least recognized figures in contemporary film and television, although he also won the Volpi Cup in 2000 at the Venice Film Festival for La diosa del asfalto, which launched his international career.
He was part of blockbusters such as La boda de mi mejor amiga, the Insidious franchise and Malditos vecinos and proved that he was efficient in both comedy and drama. Byrne had a great opportunity to show off her versatility when she was called to star in the Apple series Physical, which began filming towards the end of 2020, when the industry was beginning to emerge from the paralysis of the pandemic. Mujeres desesperadas veteran Annie Weisman believed that Rose Byrne was the ideal candidate to play Sheila D. Rubin, a 40-something housewife with serious bulimia problems who finds in aerobic exercise a way to resolve her conflicts with his image, and also a vocation and a job exit.
The series, which premiered its first season on the platform in June 2021, introduced Sheila as a woman absorbed in her thoughts, capable of eating an entire pie in a toilet or a few burgers in a cheap motel room while he was taking care of his little girl. Her daily life was transformed by the farewell of her husband, Danny (Rory Scovel), who took the opportunity to try his luck in politics. But the strongest impact on Sheila’s life was when she arrived by pure chance in the class of Bunny (Delia Saba), a Lebanese immigrant who lived with Tyler (Lou Taylor Pucci), so passionate about surf like for your video camera. Over the course of 20 episodes over two seasons, Physical shows us how Sheila completely reinvents herself, leaves her husband by the wayside, and becomes a celebrity thanks to her infectious way of explaining exercises.
To close the cycle, the series returns to Apple tomorrow with ten new episodes that will find the protagonist in a very different place. Sheila is already known to everyone thanks to her videos, she is a successful entrepreneur together with her partner Greta and has managed to calm many of her ghosts by participating in self-help groups. Although Danny is no longer her husband, he is still present in her life, sharing responsibilities with her daughter, and everything seems to be going wonderfully well until someone comes along to complicate her life. It’s about Kelly (Zooey Deschanel), a TV star who decides to create her own aerobics program, in a covert reference to Jane Fonda.
