REVERIE: Sarah Shahi on Mara’s Family Mystery

On NBC’s REVERIE, Mara (Sarah Shahi) has a tragic familial backstory—her sister and niece were killed by her brother-in-law.

But thanks (perhaps) to her new job at Reverie, which allows its users to retreat into memories/fantasy situations, Mara is now seeing her deceased niece.

“You don’t know is she seeing things? Is she going crazy? Is the program messing with her mind?” Shahi told reporters in the video below. “Mara starts going crazy. And it was so much fun playing that.”

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REVERIE: Sarah Shahi on the Personal Connection She Has to the New NBC Drama

After more than a decade and a half working in television, Sarah Shahi had a bit of freedom in trying to find her next project. Enter NBC’s REVERIE, a new drama about Mara, a former hostage negotiator (played by Shahi), who is recruited by her former boss, Charlie (Dennis Haysbert), to try and coax civilians out of a high-tech virtual-reality program where one can relive important moments from their past.

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NBC Sets Premiere Date for Sarah Shahi’s REVERIE, Return of MARLON

NBC has set more of its summer schedule.

REVERIE, a new sci-fi series starring Sarah Shahi and Dennis Haysbert, will launch Wednesday, May 30 at 10/9c.

Per NBC, “this grounded new thriller follows Mara Kint (Sarah Shahi), a former hostage negotiator and expert on human behavior who became a college professor after facing an unimaginable personal tragedy. But when her former boss, Charlie Ventana (Dennis Haysbert), brings her in to save ordinary people who have lost themselves in a highly advanced immersive virtual-reality program in which you can live out your wildest dreams, she finds that in saving others, she may actually have discovered a way to save herself.” The drama also stars Sendhil Ramamurthy, Jessica Lu and Kathryn Morris.

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