Carsyn Rose OF ‘AMBER BROWN’ ON APPLE TV+

What attracted you to the role of Amber Brown?

Just the message that I feel like “Amber Brown” puts out. It’s a message of kindness, and I feel like it’s going to help a lot of kids get through anything they may be having trouble with. And so that is definitely something that was a big part of my choice. But also the fact that the writing and the humor is very much at a kid’s level. I feel like a lot of shows these days for kids kind of dumb down the humor and I feel like this gives the viewer credit ... and it just makes me feel happy to be watching it.

Who is Amber Brown? How did you approach the character?

Well, I feel like Amber Brown, the way that I saw her when I first read it, is just a very smart, happy person. But she’s going through some tough times so she’s starting to feel sad and starting to have some problems getting through it. And she uses her art and her diary and her music to kind of help her get through it. And I feel like as I was filming, my view of her kind of changed because not only did I feel those things but I also felt like I could really see her being a super-relatable character because she is so multidimensional. She’s not a certain stereotype of a character. She’s a lot of characters mixed together, which is what people really are. You’re a bunch of different personalities put into one, so I feel like that’s definitely something cool about Amber, is that she’s not a stereotype. She’s a regular person.

How did you like working with someone as accomplished as Bonnie Hunt?

Oh, that was awesome . ... She helped me find who Amber Brown was and it was just super-great to be able to work with someone like that. Because also a lot of times you don’t get a writer or a director who’s also been an actor and I feel like that is definitely a super-amazing aspect of working with her because she understands the actor’s process and she respects it.