Meghann Fahy: My mum had learn the ebook, so she was tremendous excited. I hadn’t learn it earlier than I heard concerning the mission. It was simply actually cool to step into this world that she created, they usually did such a ravishing job of translating it. I do know the ending of our present is a bit totally different than the ebook, however I do not suppose it’s one which will likely be disappointing to the followers of the ebook as a result of it stays true to what the story actually finally was about. I feel greater than something, it’ll be good that it’s slightly little bit of a special twist on it.
One factor I cherished concerning the present is whereas there are males primary characters, the plot is absolutely concerning the girls. Did that enchantment to you as properly?
Effectively, one among my favorite parts of the present is the journey that we watch Amelia (Hewson) go on by way of these large life choices she’s having to make about whether or not or not she seems like she’s about to marry the best particular person. That’s a super-relatable section for a younger lady or particular person basically to be going via. I cherished that in the long run, 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 feel it’s actually cool.
It is actually attention-grabbing that Amelia, Merritt, and Abby [Fanning], these three girls, after which additionally Greer [Kidman], are all type of navigating their romantic relationships and placing them below a microscope and excited about what they want and need out of these items. All of them method it very otherwise. It’s cool that the present spans such a big house of what that may be.
Yeah, completely. I’m simply pondering now about how all these girls have been pushed to do issues by the lads’s behaviour. So, it was all sort 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 performed something like that earlier than, so I used to be actually within the technique of that. It was positively slightly bit trickier and slightly extra arduous than I used to be imagining, and greater than it’d even look while you see the present, as a result of it’s simply these fast pops of these things. However while 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 might get a factor below it. We shot it lots 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.