Women Rule at The CW's "Roswell, New Mexico"

quotJulie has been a mentor to me since I was 22 and while I often don39t listen and pay the price I have always felt incredibly safe with her as a mentor boss and now partnerquot she told reporters recently at an innovative Roswell New Mexico popup event in Los Angeles an immersive experience installed to promote the new series amp160quotTo look around the production and see a female director and female script coordinator and have the words amp8216Executive Produceramp8217 on my chair means a lot amp160It39s a huge deal to be on a set that feels like it39s run by womenamp160 But to also have our voices heard without shouting has been transformativequotMy only other experience on TV was mostly on The Originals and an episode of The Flashquot she continued amp160quotBoth of those shows at the time felt a little like a boys club amp160Even though Julie was running The Originals we had a lot of men in control amp160I had the most incredible experience on The Originals and learned literally everything I know but there was a sense on Roswell of being heard amp160It was incredible to be on a pilot and feel my voice was being heardquotIf the premise of Roswell New Mexico aliens with special powers living amongst us following the infamous 1947 crash landing of something from another world sounds familiar it should Based on the Melinda Metz penned book series amp8220Roswell Highamp8221 it was first developed and telecast on The WB in 1999 making stars of its leads Shiri Appleby Jason Behr Katherine Heigl Majandra Delfinoamp160Brendan Fehr and Colin Hanks amp160The teencentric original series ended in 2002Last year Mackenzie a big fan of the original show was tasked to reimagine it for a new generationamp160 She believed aging the characters ten years was a good way to startamp160 quotThe thing I loved about the original when I was 12 was the sense that everyone feels like an alien in high schoolquot she revealedamp160 quotI wanted to raise the stakes of that feeling especially in 2019 when the feeling of otherness and not having a community or family have been raised considerablyamp160 I wanted to tell stories in which the characters had to go to work and have adult responsibilities and are on the cusp of adulthood whereas at 16 you are not on the cusp of anythingquotPersonally I like to say itamp8217s a reimaginingquot she added amp160quotWe are an adaptation of the same source material as the show that aired in 1999 amp160So if you didn39t watch that show you39re goodamp160 If you did then the names may be confusing but you39re probably still goodquotRoswell New Mexico is telecast at 9 pm Tuesday on The CWPictured above left to rightamp160 Julie Plec Heather Hemmens Michael Vlamis Lily Cowles Nathan Dean Parsons Jeanine Mason Michael Trevino Tyler Blackburn Trevor St John and Carina Adly MacKenzieamp160Click on the social media tiles above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively those of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated bloggersK

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