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The wait is over!
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, Josh Gad and Isla Fisher open up about their time filming the new Peacock seriesWolf Like Me(all six, half-hour episodes were released on Thursday) — and why they think people will connect so deeply to the characters and the story.
“We’re just putting it on the page. I think people will really connect,” she says.
“It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read,” Gad, 40, adds about the script.
According to the show’s synopsis, everyone brings their own set of baggage to a new relationship — and Gary and Mary are no different. Gary is an emotional wreck and struggles to provide for his daughter since the death of his wife. Mary has a secret she can’t bring herself to share with anyone. The universe brought these two together for a reason, they just need to keep following the signs.
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“Gary’s a single dad raising an 11-year-old girl who is definitely going through her own,” says Gad. “I think that they’re going through their own grieving process in their lives and Gary’s sort of closed off. He’s not willing to let anyone or anything into his life. Well, at the same time, it’s exactly what he needs to be doing. And in walks Mary.”
As the two begin to develop feelings for one another, Gad says the characters' connection is rooted in something deeper than what they initially expected.
“I think that they both fill an essential need that they’re missing,” he says. “I think that they both understand each other because each of them is dealing with a crisis that is equally complex in a different way, and they have been living with that crisis alone, unable to speak to anyone, unable to talk it through, unable to find catharsis outside of the usual little sort of methods.”
Gad adds, “Whether you’re going to speak to a psychologist or whether you’re putting your words on paper. It takes two to tango, and these two find each other and that tango gets really complex really quickly, but it allows for the two of them to have a person in their lives that fulfills that need that they so desperately have.”
Gad is best known for voicing Olaf in theFrozenfranchise for Disney and playing LeFou in the live-action remake ofBeauty and the Beast. Meanwhile, Fisher is best known for her work in films, includingWedding CrashersandRango.
“We fell in love with Abe Forsythe’s imaginative storytelling and gift for creating complex and compelling characters,” Lisa Katz, president of scripted content for NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, told Deadline in April. “With the incredibly talented Isla Fisher and Josh Gad at the center,Wolf Like Mewill be engaging, quirky and wholly original.”
All six, half-hour episodes ofWolf Like Meare streaming now on Peacock.
source: people.com
