Recently ComicBook sat down and had a conversation with Rose Mclver about the role. She gives a few details on what we can expect to be the same and what we can see as different in the comic. While I’m glad to hear that the tone of the character is going to be on the same level I really think that as a fan of the comics the changes are going to take me a little too far out of the world to be enjoyable.
Can you give our readers a quick overview on Liv?
She dies and comes back as a zombie and she needs to eat brains in order to survive. And when she eats the brains, she sees memories of what happened to that person before they died and she’s inadvertently able to solve crimes, which becomes a new focus for her.
What differentiates you from other, or more traditional, zombies?
We have full-body makeup for as much as is exposed. So I have white skin that gets even whiter, I get paler, my eyes get redder and darker circles; I get rabid — there’s some sounds we play with and mannerisms and all sorts of things that happen to bring out this kind of rabid zombie behavior.
Have you read the comics?
Absolutely. I read the comic and we all were able to draw from that as well as these amazing scripts we’ve been working with. So it’s been a plethora of resources. We’ve been very lucky.
Have you filmed anything beyond the pilot yet?
So far we’ve just shot the first episode. We’re going up to Vancouver in just three weeks and we’re going to be shooting until the end of January and hopefully building a really exciting season.
What, tonally, are you guys doing to keep consistent with the comics even though you’re telling a very different story?
I think the sense of humor and sarcasm that I saw in Gwen’s voice when I read the comics, that very much feels like it’s still apparent in the series.
I think the general concept of her struggling with her identity as a zombie we can definitely feel in the show, and I think Diane is our zombie expert who’s been able to bring the genre side of it all to the show.
