Screencaps of the explosive and highly entertaining first episode of BrainDead have been added to the gallery! We’re excited for what this season has in store and love having MEW on our tvs every week! Click the thumbnails below to check out the caps:
SpoilerTV has released a few new stills from episode 2 of ‘BrainDead’ airing next Monday, June 20th on CBS and you can view them in the gallery.
“There’s a very, very interesting dynamic with Wheatus and Laurel, because she thinks that something is up with Red and Red knows it,” Shalhoub says. “Red sees it and really wants to take her out of the game and make her leave, because he knows that she’s going to be a disrupter.”
“Laurel is challenged in just about every possible way throughout the season — politically, personally, and ways beyond her comprehension,” Winstead says. “It’s plotted out in a slow burn of trying to figure out what these bugs are, where they come from, and what they do to people. There’s a lot of different conspiracy theories abound before the truth comes out.”
Additionally, during the first episode, the cast did a live tweet throughout the hour and you can view some behind the scenes photos of that by clicking on the photos below.
Several new interviews with Mary have been released discussing her new show BrainDead, premiering tonight on CBS. As always, click on each of the provided links to read the full interviews. The first one is with Parade Magazine:
Looking at your recent projects, you have BrainDead, Cloverfield Lane and The Returned. There seems to be this horror theme. Is there an appeal to these projects for you, or is it that they’re just the best roles out there for women right now?
I think it’s a bit of both. I always tend to come back to them, partly, because as a viewer, I’m very drawn to those stories. I always have been since I was a kid. I’ve always been a fan of the darker side of things when it comes to movies and TV. So I just love that genre.
But I also think that in terms of female protagonists, there are a lot of great roles within that genre of women really saving the day, getting to be the strong ones, and getting to be the ones leading the charge. I really like that. I like playing these characters, who when things crumble around them, they’re still standing at the end.
The second one comes from Esquire:
ESQ: This is a departure from your other TV work. Why did you want to do it?
Mary Elizabeth Winstead: I think that’s the main reason. I’d come off of doing a couple shows where it was very dramatic and a lot of emotion and a lot of crying—just very serious stuff everyday. I was really ready to just have fun and to show that side of myself. I enjoy being silly and being more than just that emotional side. When the script came, it was hard to say no to because it checked off every box of what I was looking to do at that moment.
Laurel notices something’s up almost immediately. Do you think that’s because she’s an outsider?
I think so. I think she also has this innate sense about her wherein she wants to get to the truth. That’s why she went off and tried to be a documentary filmmaker. She wants to surround herself with what she believes to be truthful and authentic things in her life. And when she gets to DC, it’s clear something is off and the truth is being hidden in some way. She has this need to scratch at the surface in some way. She wants to be good at her job and she wants to learn why it’s impossible to get things done in Washington.
CBS has released 5 very short clips ahead of the premiere of BrainDead, debuting this Monday at 10pm on CBS.
So excited to announce I will be presenting at the Tony's this Sunday night alongs…. https://t.co/hRMfr3QY1s pic.twitter.com/y8ggCRF5aV
— Mary E. Winstead (@M_E_Winstead) June 10, 2016
Per her Twitter, Mary announced she will be presenting an award along with BrainDead co-star Aaron Tveit this Sunday at the 2016 Tony Awards. The Tonys air on Sunday, June 12th.
Additionally, I have added screencaps to the gallery from Mary’s interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers. You can check them out in the gallery:
A new behind the scenes video for BrainDead has been released, where the cast and creators discuss what the show is about and who the characters are. Watch it below!
Several new interviews with Mary are out today ahead of the premiere of BrainDead, premiering this Monday, June 13 at 10pm on CBS. As always, below I will post highlights from each interview, but click on each individual link to read them in full. The first one comes from IGN where Mary talks about the show and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
IGN: What was your first reaction hearing the concept? I think what is really interesting is the Kings making it, because I don’t think anyone predicted this would be their next show after The Good Wife.
Winstead: Absolutely not. I think when it was first brought up to me, the concept wasn’t really brought up. What was said was “the Kings are doing this new show. You should read the script.” The producer who mentioned it to me does both BrainDead and Mercy Street. Eventually it came through as an offer from my agent and the same thing was kind of said. “Take a look at the script. It’s from the Kings. It’s their new show after The Good Wife.” I didn’t know what it was when I opened it. I was just blown away by the script and what a risky, fun, ballsy move it was on their part to do this as their first thing after the Good Wife. it’s such a 180 and a shift in tone and style and story and a real experiment because it’s just a mash up of so many genres. I just felt like it was done so well in the pilot that I read and they’re so talented. When really talented people are going on a limb and doing things no one else is doing, you want along for that ride. That was my thought process on it.
IGN: The night that trailer dropped, I was like “holy s**t, I talked to her about this movie a year ago but I didn’t know it was this movie.” Was it funny for you to have the whole discovery yourself of what it was actually going to be, after thinking, “Oh, I made this little movie with me and John Goodman.”
Winstead: It’s been one of the most pleasant surprises of my career because it’s not that the movie became something else. That’s the movie that we shot. But I didn’t expect anyone to know about it because in my mind, it was this little movie called Valencia with me and John Goodman. It wasn’t until the Cloverfield name got attached to it that people turned their heads and said, “Oh, this sounds interesting.” It is an interesting comment on current moviegoers and a title does need something now. That’s a whole other conversation, but in this case, I’m happy that it made people want to talk about it and curious about it and that it made people want to check it out, and that there’s such a great response.
Below is a new video interview Mary did on Monday during a press day for BrainDead. In it, she talks about the types of roles she looks for, her character’s relationship with Gareth (Aaron Tveit), how she chooses her roles today and the tone of the series.
Robert and Michelle King, the duo behind BrainDead (and another little show called The Good Wife), gave an interview with Entertainment Weekly and praised Mary’s work ethic and how much of an amazing person she is on and off the screen. Below is the excerpt:
Uniting all the themes is Winstead (Final Destination 3, 10 Cloverfield Lane), the 31-year-old actress whom the Kings praise for her presence on and off camera. “She’s a truly nice, genuine, grounded person on top of the fact that she can sell jokes,” says Michelle. “She can make unrealistic plot twists seem real.”
If that sounds familiar to King fans, there’s a good reason why. “What we got with Julianna Margulies on The Good Wife was not just someone who could do the comedy and do the drama, but was a leader on the set and kind of raised everybody else’s game,” says Robert. “And day players — she would raise their game by being so on the ball. We’ve lucked out with Mary Elizabeth Winstead. She does exactly the same thing. People come to the set, and if they don’t remember their lines, they go into the trailer at lunch and they quickly get off book. Because Mary is doing this five days a week, and then she comes in and hits it out the park.”
After today’s press day in New York, Spoiler TV released a bunch of new stills from BrainDead, premiering June 13 at 10pm on CBS. Head to the gallery to check out the full set.
Below is the synopsis for the show:
BRAINDEAD is a comic-thriller set in the world of Washington, D.C. politics that follows Laurel, a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer who discovers two things: the government has stopped working, and bugs are eating the brains of Congress members and Hill staffers. The daughter of a Democratic political dynasty who left Washington, D.C. to become a documentary filmmaker, Laurel is pulled back into the family business when her brother, Luke, the Democratic whip Senator from Maryland, needs her help running his Senate office. On the Hill, Laurel becomes unlikely friends with Gareth (Aaron Tveit), the smart, hardworking Legislative Director to a top Republican, Senator Red Wheatus (Tony Shalhoub). Her other allies include Gustav (Johnny Ray Gill), an eccentric genius who is the first in D.C. to recognize that something sinister is attacking the Capitol, and Rochelle (Nikki M. James), a medical student who teams up with Laurel and Gustav to protect and defend the citizens of D.C. from an untimely fate. As the tiny bugs continue to multiply, Laurel and her allies must work quickly to identify the creatures, stop their infiltration and ultimately save the world.