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"In a cheeky nod to Mother&amp;#x27;s Day this weekend, NBC is premiering its miniseries take on Rosemary&amp;#x27;s Baby. Its version of the classic 1968 Roman Polanski film (which starred Mia Farrow) moves the story to present-day Paris and casts Zoe Saldana as Rosemary and Patrick J. Adams as her husband, Guy. I got the chance to have tea with Zoe (at the Plaza, no less!) to discuss the miniseries and how it all came together. First of all, Zoe made it very clear that this is a retelling of Rosemary&amp;#x27;s Baby and not a remake. So does the modern, contemporary setting influence the story of Rosemary? &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#x27;s actually going to help it,&amp;quot; Zoe told me. &amp;quot;What I like about this modern tell of it is that we had the opportunity of having a female director and having a very opinionated New Yorker. We brought to life what we felt would be a more realistic woman who is less subservient&amp;amp;#8212;she&amp;#x27;s kind, she&amp;#x27;s an innocent, but she&amp;#x27;s not a slave to a marriage or to a man or obedient. She loves her husband, and she&amp;#x27;s very much committed to her marriage, but she&amp;#x27;s inquisitive and will raise concerns. Even when she&amp;#x27;s not heard, she will try to the best of her abilities to be heard. That, to me, was much more natural, and it was much more natural for me to channel that. I would never know where to start&amp;amp;#8212;I would need months of preparation&amp;amp;#8212;to play a subservient woman. [Laughs] It&amp;#x27;s inconceivable to me. If you say black, I&amp;#x27;ll say white just so I can contradict you&amp;amp;#8212;especially if you&amp;#x27;re a man. [Laughs]&amp;quot; Zoe also revealed that she made a choice not to watch the original Rosemary&amp;#x27;s Baby, or any horror film for that matter, before filming because she didn&amp;#x27;t want the performance to feel like an imitation. &amp;quot;That said, I was very excited to be doing a horror movie&amp;amp;#8212;it was my first horror movie that I did,&amp;quot; she told me. &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve done movies where there&amp;#x27;s special effects, green screens, and prosthetics. Even though it&amp;#x27;s a long and difficult process, it&amp;#x27;s actually a lot of fun to get to do something different and new.&amp;quot; And even though the story is dark, the mood on set was much lighter. &amp;quot;It was hilarious [on set],&amp;quot; Zoe said. &amp;quot;We all just had a laugh out of eating fake organs and the prosthetic bellies. The moment I would start to move or sweat, [the belly would] start ripping away from my skin. And I was like, &amp;quot;My God, what is this?!&amp;quot; and Patrick would say, &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t pull the belly!&amp;quot; And I&amp;#x27;m bumping into everything...you just make it fun. It just brings levity to a heavy subject, so I really enjoyed it.&amp;quot; Tune in Sunday, May 11, at 9 P.M./8 P.M.CT on NBC to see Rosemary&amp;#x27;s Baby."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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