What’s it like to have front row seats at the most toxic dinner party of the year?
Well, if you buy tickets to The Roses, you can get pretty close. The new comedy adapted from the 1981 Warren Adler novel The War of the Roses stars heralded English actors Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch as Ivy and Theo Rose, a once deeply besotted couple who is now on the verge of divorce, and ravenous to drag each other down — even with dinner guests present!
To celebrate the film’s release in the U.S. and UK, Mashable UK editor Shannon Connellan interviewed The Roses‘ cast, including Sunita Mani, Ncuti Gatwa, Jamie Demetriou, Zoë Chao, and Kate McKinnon, as well as screenwriter Tony McNamara and director Jay Roach. Together, they delved into what it was like to shoot this scene and watch the fireworks pop off in person.
The supporting cast was overwhelmingly in awe of Colman and Cumberbatch, as they slugged McNamara’s scorching dialogue back and forth. Yet even over days of shooting this scene, the laughs (and dining) carried on into the night, with the cast going out for supper afterwards.
To see how all this offscreen camaraderie translates to the divorce comedy, be sure to catch The Roses, which is now in theaters.
