iZombie Interview: Producers Preview Tonight’s Episode “Zombie Bro”

iZombie illustrates how great it is tonight (October 13) at 9PM with a new episode called “Zombie Bro” that gives us a Liv without a care in the world, after consuming the brain of a fratboy who is murdered. Meanwhile, Ravi and Major have their own “broments” in a separate storyline.

Following a screening of “Zombie Bro,” Executive Producers Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright spoke a bit about iZombie Season 2, including tonight’s episode and how “awesomely” Liv reacts to being a “Zombie Bro.”

“I feel like some brains are stronger than others, how it affects her… maybe if the force is strong in this one… the bro is strong in this one, so I feel it kind of takes her over a bit more than normal,” Diane Ruggiero-Wright teases about how Liv will take her new bro personality. “It’s kind of hard to balance your professional and romantic lives when you’re on just party brain,” she adds.

The producers this year are mostly focusing on one aspect of the brains for Liv to play with — usually the strongest aspect of the character, which works best for the storytelling. “I mean, fratboy. Grumpy old man. Next week’s episode, which by the way, I think is the best Rose has ever been, is a Real Housewife brain… and she is spectacular,” Rob Thomas teases. “She looks great, but she has every mannerism down. It’s so good. We’ve really gotten to a place when we’re hunting for that thing — I think a lot of ‘murder of the week’ or ‘criminal case of the week’ shows start from a place of ‘what is a compelling murder mystery?’ And we’re always in the room saying ‘What’s a fun brain to have Liv eat this week, and what will that give us to play? What comedy can we mine from that’?” he says. “Any person probably has a hundred characteristics, and we typically pick one,” he continues. The “bro” brain will give Liv a chance to live a whole week with no introspection or self-awareness, and it sounds like it will be as fun for Liv as it is for the audience.
“This is a time where she actually not only enjoyed being on the brain, but she was like ‘I kind of love this guy. We would’ve been bros!’ She felt a little affection for him. The thing about Rose, too, that is just — it’s almost annoying if it didn’t serve us so well — she’s good at EVERYTHING. So, all these different things that you see her do, she actually does them. She could do anything. Instead of picking brains that are fun, I’m now just gonna pick a brain that I think she won’t be able to do. It’ll be bad for the show, but screw it,” Ruggiero-Wright jokes. “She can’t be that perfect! I’m going to find her weak spot!”

iZombie “Zombie Bro” airs tonight (October 13) at 9PM on The CW. Take a look at some photos below!

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iZombie -- "Zombie Bro" -- Image Number: ZMB202a_0259.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Robert Buckley as Major and Rahul Kohli as Ravi -- Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW -- © 2015 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved.