Digital Media Center
Bryant-Denny Stadium, Gate 61
920 Paul Bryant Drive
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0370
(800) 654-4262

© 2024 Alabama Public Radio
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Fresh Air Weekend: Actor Rosie Perez; British 'Office' co-creator Stephen Merchant

Rosie Perez says she has everything she ever wanted in life: "Everyone thinks it's the fame and the fortune. It's not. It was love and stability."
HBO Max
Rosie Perez says she has everything she ever wanted in life: "Everyone thinks it's the fame and the fortune. It's not. It was love and stability."

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

More than fame and success, Rosie Perez found what she always wanted — a stable home: Raised in a convent for abandoned kids, The Flight Attendant co-star used to dream of stability and a loving home. Now that she has it, Perez says, "It's priceless."

You can't 'Trust' this novel. And that's a very good thing: Hernan Diaz's novel is constantly pulling a fast one on the reader. It opens with the saga of a Wall Street tycoon, but soon another narrative comes to upend the truth of everything that came before.

British 'Office' co-creator Stephen Merchant isn't afraid to fuse comedy with tragedy: Merchant's new series, The Outlaws, follows low-level offenders who've been assigned community service. It was inspired in part by his parents, who supervised community service in Bristol, England.

You can listen to the original interviews and review here:

More than fame and success, Rosie Perez found what she always wanted — a stable home

You can't 'Trust' this novel. And that's a very good thing

British 'Office' co-creator Stephen Merchant isn't afraid to fuse comedy with tragedy

Copyright 2022 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air.

News from Alabama Public Radio is a public service in association with the University of Alabama. We depend on your help to keep our programming on the air and online. Please consider supporting the news you rely on with a donation today. Every contribution, no matter the size, propels our vital coverage. Thank you.