Anyone with children knows you’ll do just about anything to protect them, even if it’s from themselves. There’s no price too high for their protection. Ain’t no mountain high enough that would prevent you from leaping in to save the day. In HBO‘s trailer for Rooster, Steve Carell plays a best-selling author who comes to the college where his daughter (Charly Clive) teaches because she’s going through a crisis after her husband (Phil Dunster) “left me for a grad student,” as she and everyone else on campus put it. The college’s head (John C. McGinley) is willing to let him stay, though the terms of his occupation remain unclear. While traversing the college, trying to right wrongs, Carell’s character, dubbed “Rooster” by the students, begins making friends and forming unlikely bonds as he hopes to rescue his daughter from emotional distress.
Why is Carell’s character called “Rooster?” According to the trailer, it’s the name of the lead character from his best-selling books. The students figure that if Carell’s character wants to shake things up, he needs to become more like “Rooster” to get the job done.
When does Rooster premiere on Netflix?
HBO’s Rooster premieres on March 8.
In addition to Carell, McGinley, Dunster, and Clive, the Rooster cast includes Danielle Deadwyler, Lauren Tsai, Connie Britton, Robby Hoffman, Annie Mumolo, Alan Ruck, and Rory Scovel.
Rooster hails from Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses, who co-showrun and executive produce alongside Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer of Lawrence’s Doozer Productions, Jonathan Krisel, Barbie Adler, Annie Mebane, David Stassen, Anthony King, David Hyman, and Carell.
What is Steve Carell’s Mountainhead?
Steve Carell’s latest film, Mountainhead, premiered on HBO Max in May. In Mountainhead, “a group of billionaire friends get together against the backdrop of a rolling international crisis.”
The group of billionaire friends is tech executives Randall (Steve Carell of The Office), Hugo Van Yalk, a.k.a. Souper (Jason Schwartzman of Rushmore), Venis (Cory Michael Smith of Saturday Night), and Jeff (Ramy Youssef of Poor Things). Also in the cast are Hadley Robinson (Anyone But You), Andy Daly (Semi-Pro), Ali Kinkade (Lessons in Chemistry), Daniel Oreskes (Law & Order: Organized Crime), David Thompson (It’s What’s Inside), Amie MacKenzie (Publish or Perish), and Ava Kostia (Romance on the Ranch).
After enjoying the second season of A Man on the Inside, starring Ted Danson, which finds a retired man, Charles, investigating shenanigans at a college campus, I’m more than game for watching Steve Carell in Rooster. There’s something special about a college campus setting that lends itself to outrageous comedy, and I think Carell could become a real shit-disturber while trying to fix his daughter’s marriage.
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