Sunita Mani, Ncuti Gatwa, Jamie Demetriou, Zoë Chao, Kate McKinnon, screenwriter Tony McNamara, and director Jay Roach sit down and sound off.

The cast of 'The Roses' has provided insight into the making of the film's memorable dinner party scene, describing it as both chaotic and highly entertaining. Cast members recounted the difficulty of maintaining composure during the scene due to the comedic exchanges and the strong personalities involved.

Filming the sequence took several days, with the actors often continuing their camaraderie off-camera by dining together after shoots. The cast and crew emphasized the importance of teamwork and mutual admiration in delivering the scene's comedic tension, noting that the quality of the script and the professionalism of the ensemble contributed to its success.

'The Roses' cast reveals the secrets of that heated dinner party

Everybody seems to think we hate each other. It's infused with tarragon and adds a bit of bitterness. Ivy likes to leave a little bit of herself in everything she does. I love this fun banter you guys do. Sometimes Ivy's mad at me and I can't even tell. Sometimes he's got it f***ing me and I can't even tell. Congratulations on the film. I had the best time. It was absolute chaos and it was so mean. I loved it. But I want to jump straight to the most chaotic moment in the entire film, which is the dinner party scene. I kind of got whiplash after this scene. Your characters are just sitting amongst this pay-per-view cage fight that's going on. Can you take me through making this scene? Because I can't even imagine being on set. Exactly that. It was like a pay-per-view. We had best front row seats in the house to this showdown. For me, watching everyone else with just comedic genius. The punishing match that is happening is so funny in real time because you know that everyone is the most delightful, wonderfully lovely person. It is kind of this tension that is created where you're like, Oh my God, you would never. And then you hear them say something so punishing and it's like, A victim, a loser, a wanker. Number 10, Theo, what a d***. You just can't help but break sometimes. And then there was all the comedic riffing from Kate and Andy and Jamie and Zoe. It was really, really funny. You guys are so cute. Like a sack of kittens. Near a rushing river. I don't get that. I am an empath and I'm having a hard time at this table. Sorry, f***. How did you keep it together during that scene? Because it's amazing. We didn't. There was lots of laughing, for real. We did a lot. Shot for days. Shot for days. Oh God, it was just really fun. I can't even make a joke about it. It was so fun. I felt so enthused to be in the company of all of these people that I admire and just watching them do their thing. Just go around the table and perform. It's exciting to watch people that you admire perform two feet from your face. And say the nastiest things ever to each other. Kate also made a great point yesterday that we would shoot this dinner scene two to four days. I can't remember exactly how long we shot it. And then we would roll right into a cast dinner at night. So it was just like 24 hours of having dinner together. We wanted to. And we chose to continue sitting at a table together. I think that's a testament to... I'm not sure what it's a testament to. Friendship. Friendship. Quality of personality. These are high-firing personalities. No duds. Did you all sit in the same seats at dinner? Oh. No. No, we must have moved. Well, that day, the three days, I think it was two and a half or three days that we took filming that whole sequence. I loved it. It's always stressful shooting dinners because you have to keep everybody oriented and you've got to do so much coverage. And it can get tedious. You always worry the actors will lose the spontaneity or whatever. The script was so good. They were stuck there. They weren't going to get to go anywhere. And they just stepped up for each other. I found that in shooting dinner scenes before when you have fantastic, you know, co-conspirators in the process. They're all both trying to be as good as they can be for each other, but they're also trying not to laugh too much because that can really blow the rhythm of things. And they failed in some of those cases. But it was always enjoyable to try to put it back together, say, no, stick in it. We're going to go again. And, oh, my God, the level of kind of comedic tension, but then evolving towards the post-dinner scene when it's just Olivia and Benedict going at each other. It's just that scene, that was amazing to witness and to even be part of. I just felt lucky to be there watching it. You're a bottomless pit of need. You're just making me madder! Things are getting a little out of hand. Oh, you think?

Iran-backed Houthis raided offices of the United Nations’ food, health and children's agencies in Yemen’s capital, detaining several UN employees, officials said. The rebels tightened security across Sanaa following the Israeli killing of their prime minister and several Cabinet members.

Sana'a

Middle East Conflict

Houthis raid UN offices in Yemen, detain 11 employees

A large buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Southern Caribbean has officials in Caracas and experts in the United States asking: is the move aimed at combating drug cartels, as the Trump administration has suggested, or is it for something else entirely?

Caracas

U.S. builds up forces in Caribbean as officials, experts concerned

More than 600 people were killed and 2,500 injured after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late on Sunday, the Taliban has said. Afghanistan is prone to deadly earthquakes, with the worst one in recent memory hitting the country on 7 October, 2023.

Kabul

Over 600 killed after 6.0 magnitude quake rocks Afghanistan

Officials from the Trump administration spent the weekend pushing back against a U.S. appeals court ruling that most tariffs against Canada were illegal. Economic adviser Peter Navarro called the decision politically motivated.

Washington

Global Tariffs

Trump officials push back after court rules tariffs illegal

Israel's security cabinet is considering a plan to seize Gaza City with attacks ramping up over the weekend. The Israeli military has now ended a temporary pause of military action around aid delivery locations ahead of an expected 'full-scale assault'.

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Israel intensifying attacks ahead of planned seizure of Gaza City

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says he's making every effort to stop President Trump from using the military to "invade states." But the White House claims the National Guard is needed to stop violent crime in Chicago.

Chicago

Trump threatens to send military to Chicago over crime

A young boy who had wandered away from his parents ended up on a closed monorail at Hersheypark in Pennsylvania this weekend. A bystander helped rescue the boy as a gathering crowd cheered. It's not clear how he made his way onto the monorail.

Hershey

Boy rescued from monorail track at Pennsylvania amusement park

A flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza, has set sail from Barcelona. On board are organisers from 44 countries, who say they're trying to break Israel's siege on the Strip.

Barcelona

Greta Thunberg onboard second aid flotilla heading for Gaza Strip

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said New Delhi was committed to improving ties with China in a key meeting with President Xi Jinping, as the two leaders discussed the need to expand trade and investment ties against the backdrop of U.S. tariffs.

Beijing

Modi meets with Xi, vows to improve China ties

Pakistan's eastern Punjab province is facing one of the worst flood emergencies in recent history. Authorities say raging waters have affected the lives of more than 2 million people.

Punjab

Pakistan's Punjab province battered by historic flood

China’s Xi Jinping has welcomed Russia’s Vladimir Putin, India’s Narendra Modi and leaders from around 20 countries to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, a high-security gathering aimed at boosting Beijing’s influence and promoting "a multipolar world order."

Tianjin

Xi aims to show global south unity with Modi and Putin

Russia's Vladimir Putin is among a dozen leaders attending the regional security summit, which comes at a crunch moment in talks over his war on Ukraine, and for a summit that's demonstrating a strong show of unity among Global South leaders.

Putin arrives in China for key regional security summit

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson detailed his plan Saturday to resist President Trump's threatened immigration crackdown in his city. CBS News has learned the Trump administration plans to intensify immigration enforcement in the city as early as next week.

Chicago mayor pushes back on Trump's immigration crackdown

Russian strikes shook the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine overnight Friday, hitting a five-story apartment building, killing at least one person and injuring dozens more.

Zaporizhzhia

Russia continues assault on Ukrainian cities

For the first time since this week's deadly mass shooting at a Minneapolis church, which killed two young students and wounded more than a dozen people, a devastated community gathered Saturday at the site to attend Mass.

Minneapolis

Mass held at site of Minneapolis church shooting

The United States says it will not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to travel to New York next month for a United Nations gathering of world leaders, where several U.S. allies are set to recognise Palestine as a state.

New York

U.S bars Palestinian leadership from attending UN

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing for an immigration crackdown in Chicago as early as next week, sources told CBS News. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blasted the Trump administration's plans.

Chicago immigration crackdown could happen next week, sources say

The Israeli military on Friday declared Gaza City a “dangerous combat zone” before a new offensive in the Palestinian enclave's largest city. Israel is moving forward with plans to seize Gaza City despite growing international pressure to end the nearly two-year conflict.

Israel declares Gaza City a 'dangerous combat zone'

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been blocked from attending the UN General Assembly in New York next month. That's as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has cancelled visas for the Palestinian delegation.

U.S. blocks Palestinian officials from attending UN general assembly

The death toll of a devastating Russian air assault in Kyiv earlier this week has been revised upward to 25. Now European allies suggest Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing U.S. President Donald Trump if he runs out the clock on Washington's peace efforts.

Paris

Ukraine Invasion

Macron says Putin 'played Trump' if Zelenskyy meeting isn’t set soon

The Trump administration is planning expanded immigration operations in Chicago next week, two Department of Homeland Security sources tell CBS News. Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.

Trump planning immigration crackdown in Chicago next week: sources

Iran-backed Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Sanaa, according to Yemeni and Israeli reports. The strikes also targeted top military officials, including the group's defence minister.

Iran-backed Houthi PM killed in Israeli airstrikes on Yemen's capital

Thailand's Constitutional Court dismissed 39-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office on Friday (August 29) on an ethics violation, abruptly ending the term of Thailand's youngest prime minister after just over a year in office.

Bangkok

Thai court ousts PM Paetongtarn for ethics violation

Chinese President Xi Jinping will be flanked by leaders of some of the world's most heavily sanctioned nations at a World War Two military parade in Beijing next week, in a show of solidarity against the West.

China to stage massive military parade as Xi hosts sanctioned leaders

The multinational peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL has played a significant role in monitoring the security situation in southern Lebanon for decades, including during the Israel-Hezbollah conflict last year.

Beirut

UN votes to end peacekeeping force in Lebanon after five decades

Russia, set to assume the UN Security Council presidency in October, has proposed extending the resolution that governs the snapback mechanism, potentially intensifying a diplomatic standoff with European powers.

Moscow

Russia slams European push to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran

It's been 13 days since President Trump said he could strike a peace deal in Ukraine, following his meeting with Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin. But Russia shows no signs of backing down, launching an aerial assault on Kyiv.

Kyiv

Russian attack on Kyiv kills more than a dozen people

The shooter in Minneapolis fired more than 100 rounds from a rifle at the church where students at Annunciation Catholic School attended Mass. City and state officials highlighted this fact as they called for stricter gun control.

Minneapolis officials call for stronger gun laws after school shooting

The shooter who killed 2 kids and injured 17 at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis had ties to the church where he targeted children celebrating a new school year during mass.

Annunciation school shooter had knowledge of church he targeted

The White House is responding to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Susan Monarez's refusal to step down from her role. CBS News' Olivia Rinaldi reports.

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