Now that you've seen more of the horrors inside Memorial Hospital, we've got more insight from some of the stars on Five Days on Memorial.
Julie Ann Emery, Cornelius Smith, Jr., and Adepero Oduye play three pivotal characters -- administrator Diane Robichaux, Dr. Bryant King, and nurse Karen Wynn, respectively.
Find out their thoughts as the drama unfolded for their characters and the hospital.
All the actors were tasked with bringing to life one of the greatest disasters of our generation. Julie Ann Emery had to do it with a 13-pound prosthetic pregnancy belly. That helped her get into the role of something she otherwise couldn't imagine.
Emery had finished shooting something in New Orleans just two weeks before Katrina hit. "It felt personal to me to watch on the news, but I don't think I had any awareness of what was happening inside New Orleans hospitals while this was going on.
Julie Ann Emery, Cornelius Smith, Jr., and Adepero Oduye play three pivotal characters -- administrator Diane Robichaux, Dr. Bryant King, and nurse Karen Wynn, respectively.
Find out their thoughts as the drama unfolded for their characters and the hospital.
All the actors were tasked with bringing to life one of the greatest disasters of our generation. Julie Ann Emery had to do it with a 13-pound prosthetic pregnancy belly. That helped her get into the role of something she otherwise couldn't imagine.
Emery had finished shooting something in New Orleans just two weeks before Katrina hit. "It felt personal to me to watch on the news, but I don't think I had any awareness of what was happening inside New Orleans hospitals while this was going on.
- 8/19/2022
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Julie Ann Emery is set to star opposite Vera Farmiga, Adepero Oduye and Cornelius Smith Jr. in Five Days at Memorial, Apple TV+’s limited series from John Ridley, Carlton Cuse and ABC Signature.
Written by Ridley and Cuse based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.
Emery will play Diane Robichaux, an assistant administrator for LifeCare, who finds herself deeply involved in the events following the hurricane.
Farmiga plays Dr. Anna Pou, the doctor on duty at Memorial when the storm hit. Smith plays Dr. Bryant King, an internist, and Oduye plays Karen Wynn, the nurse...
Written by Ridley and Cuse based on the acclaimed nonfiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come.
Emery will play Diane Robichaux, an assistant administrator for LifeCare, who finds herself deeply involved in the events following the hurricane.
Farmiga plays Dr. Anna Pou, the doctor on duty at Memorial when the storm hit. Smith plays Dr. Bryant King, an internist, and Oduye plays Karen Wynn, the nurse...
- 4/29/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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