Right now, Rose McIver is on top of the world.
“It’s surreal,” she told Stephen Colbert in an appearance on “The Late Show.”
In other words, she’s an incredibly versatile star.
“I don’t have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose.
I’m able to step into these other parts of myself.
Read on to learn how Rose McIver went from child actor to web link television star.
Her childhood was full of animals
Rose McIver was born in 1988 in New Zealand.
The daughter of a photographer and a ceramicist, she grew up surrounded by creativity.
While she was a kid, she was surrounded by animals.
“They’re really smart!”
As she said inThe Bare Magazine, she had an “idyllic” childhood.
“I grew up in a small community by the beach,” she said.
“But once you hit 18, you don’t necessarily want an idyllic small community anymore.
You want to see cities, and I was very ready to go and explore.”
Soon, McIver joined in.
“I never got into this because I was talented,” she insisted.
“I definitely wasn’t a good actor,” she insisted.
“I felt empowered.”
Though McIver worked consistently throughout her childhood, she didn’t mind.
“I was very much still allowed to have my school life.”
She had a number of odd jobs
Rose McIver worked consistently throughout her childhood and teen years.
Still, however, McIver wasn’t sure she wanted to pursue acting for the rest of her life.
She considered being a rapper, and she even studied psychology in school.
“I think I was the first official banana deliveryperson in Wellington.
Noting that Wellington is “a very windy city,” McIver recalled switching up her mode of transportation.
Ultimately, neither rapping, nor psychology, nor banana-delivering were her calling.
Instead, as she told Stuff, her acting career “just kept happening.”
Soon, Hollywood would come calling.
When the movie was released,The New York Timesfollowed the girls on a trip to the Griffith Observatory.
I don’t know!
I didn’t want to count my chickens before they hatched.”
She even went back to working retail while she waited for the film to be released.
Thankfully, everything was about to change.
She moved to LA, and the rest is history.
On the former a show that brought together numerous Disney characters from across franchises she played Tinker Bell.
“The fanbase for that show is unreal.
It is so supportive,” she gushed toCollider.
The show’s setup meant that McIver played variations on her character each week, a unique acting challenge.
“I think part of the challenge is maintaining Liv each week, and her integrity.
McIver toldShowbiz Junkiesthat she’s gotten some interesting feedback to the character’s unique look.
“I’m alarmed,” she joked.
“At the start I was like, ‘This is cool.
I get to play like a gritty character.
It’s not glamorous.’
Like, wow, that’s a real life-questioner.”
At first, she made a conscious decision not to only hang out with other Kiwi transplants.
However, she had an emotional experience at an industry networking event for other New Zealand natives.
“I do think of myself very strongly as a New Zealander,” she said.
McIver visits her ancestral home regularly and still keeps on top of current events.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand closed its borders, meaning McIver was unable to return home.
On Instagram, McIver paid homage to New Zealand’s original inhabitants.
I profit from the atrocities of my ancestors daily.
Liv blends brains into smoothies, eats them with chopsticks, and occasionally, just takes a chomp.
In real life, McIver wasn’t a fan of the taste of the fake brains.
“They’re like coconut agar,” she explained in an interview with Showbiz Junkies.
“It’s pretty disgusting.
It isn’t real brains but it’s not something I would ever choose to eat.”
Occasionally, however, the prop department crafted a brain-based delicacy for the actor.
“It was actually pretty delicious.
After we finished the shoot I kept eating it, which everyone found to be pretty hilarious.”
Unlike her carnivorous character, McIver herself is more judicious about her diet.
Switching from a vegetarian diet back to meat-eating proved to be challenging for the Kiwi star.
She joked toDujourthat she got some bad advice from a friend.
“They gave me oysters for my first venture back into the carnivore’s world,” she recalled.
“That was too much.
I went back to being a vegetarian for another month.”
In the first film, her character is a journalist who goes undercover in the fictional country of Aldovia.
McIver is aware of what silly escapism the series is, but she toldVulturethat’s why she signed on.
Heartwarming in the end.
All of the things you’d expect from a Christmas film.
“People want to see things that make them feel good right now,” she said.
“I’m always down to keep that story going,” she insisted.
“I think it’s one of the funniest franchises I could ever be part of.”
She told Saoirse Ronan in Interview magazine that growing up on set around American actors definitely helped.
“Mastering an American accent was key.
If it’s possible for you to do that, it’s fair game,” she said.
“You’ve done the training and done the hard work and you have what it takes.”
“Don’t break your neck to spend your money,” she advised.
While appearing on “Conan,” McIver joked, “It’s pretty ugly…
I love our country, but I don’t like our accent.”
We had divisions and all the ins and outs with ‘iZombie.’
She elaborated on those technical challenges in an interview with Variety.
Thankfully, it works; the show has received rave reviews.
In particular, she has found therapy beneficial.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, McIver discovered that her past experiences with OCD worked in her favor.
“I actually felt fortunate I have OCD,” she realized.
“Everybody else was going, ‘Oh my god, we can’t control this.'”
That was a familiar feeling to McIver.
She, however, was not actually fighting monsters.
It was really picking up the tail ends and pieces of everybody else’s really hard work.”
In other words, McIver’s role is not a particularly action-packed one.
McIver didn’t do the stunt herself, but she told Collider that she nearly injured herself anyway.
“Somehow, I managed to smack my head really hard when I did that,” she recalled.
“I was like, ‘Thank goodness, they did not entrust me with the full roll.’
Two inches and I was already embarrassing myself.”
She often supports his artistic pursuits onInstagram, having shouted out a successful show in 2021.
“If you were lucky enough to see it, you understand.
Congratulations to you my love.”
I especially love how you designed our outdoor fireplace out of la croix boxes.
Innovation is key.”
In 2023, the lovebirds took their relationship to the next level.
Fans onRedditscreencapped an Instagram story announcement of their wedding, depicting Rose McIver and George Byrne getting hitched.
“Very lucky me,” the groom wrote.
Reposting his photo, McIver added, “Actually I’m the lucky one.”
There are no signs that McIver plans to change her name now that she’s married.
