Meghann Fahy: My mum had learn the guide, so she was tremendous excited. I hadn’t learn it earlier than I heard concerning the undertaking. It was simply actually cool to step into this world that she created, and so they did such a lovely job of translating it. I do know the ending of our present is a bit totally different than the guide, however I do not assume it’s one which might be disappointing to the followers of the guide as a result of it stays true to what the story actually finally was about. I believe greater than something, it’ll be good that it’s just a little little bit of a unique twist on it.
One factor I cherished concerning the present is whereas there are males important characters, the plot is admittedly concerning the ladies. Did that enchantment to you as effectively?
Properly, one in every of my favorite elements of the present is the journey that we watch Amelia (Hewson) go on by way of these enormous life selections she’s having to make about whether or not or not she seems like she’s about to marry the proper individual. That’s a super-relatable part for a younger lady or individual typically to be going by way of. I cherished that ultimately, she makes the selection that’s greatest for her and decides to put money into herself. That’s satisfying as a result of it’s very courageous to get that shut to creating a choice like that. I believe it’s actually cool.
It is actually attention-grabbing that Amelia, Merritt, and Abby [Fanning], these three ladies, after which additionally Greer [Kidman], are all type of navigating their romantic relationships and placing them underneath a microscope and desirous about what they want and need out of these items. All of them strategy it very otherwise. It’s cool that the present spans such a big house of what that may be.
Yeah, completely. I’m simply considering now about how all these ladies have been pushed to do issues by the lads’s behaviour. So, it was all type of the lads’s fault on the finish of the day.
[Laughs.] Yeah.
I simply watched the finale and located the drowning scene, the place your character will get murdered by Dakota Fanning’s character, to be very visceral. What was it like filming that?
From a technical standpoint, it was actually fascinating for me. I had by no means actually achieved something like that earlier than, so I used to be actually within the means of that. It was positively just a little bit trickier and just a little extra arduous than I used to be imagining, and greater than it’d even look once you see the present, as a result of it’s simply these fast pops of these items. However once you’re capturing that, it’s hours.
We shot stuff within the precise ocean, after which we shot stuff in a pool and had a particular tank so we may get a factor underneath it. We shot it loads of other ways, and it was actually tiring. However Dakota was superior to work with, and we have been each tremendous recreation, so it was a extremely enjoyable expertise.
