'Five Days at Memorial's Julie Ann Emery Gets Emotional Talking About Apple TV+ Series
Apple TV+'s newest limited series Five Days at Memorial premiered its first three episodes on the streaming platform Friday and audiences are already getting rather emotional over it. But while viewers will connect over the course of eight episodes to the heartwrenching realities one New Orleans hospital endured during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, series star Julie Ann Emery admits to PopCulture.com exclusively she is still emotionally affected by the show they filmed last summer.
With Emery transforming into Diane Robichaux, the real-life incident coordinator at LifeCare (an elder care facility that rented a floor at Memorial Hospital in 2005) and subsequent crucial witness for law enforcement of the horrors that took place at Memorial Hospital, the Tennessee actress is noticeably emotional during our PopCulture on-camera when discussing Robichaux's experience, especially in Episode 5. During the first five days after Katrina impacted the hospital and knocked out power as the heat soared and floodwaters rose, Robichaux was particularly worried about leaving any of her living patients behind, particularly 61-year-old patient Emmett Everett, who was conscious but weighed 380 pounds and was paralyzed. It was this moment Emery tells PopCulture still affects her.
