Meghann Fahy provides one other high-society collection to her résumé — however this time, she’s not enjoying the rich one.
In Netflix‘s upcoming collection Sirens, created by Molly Smith Metzler (Maid), Fahy performs Devon, a personality who comes from a poor upbringing in Buffalo and is spending the weekend on an island, residing in luxurious, however her principal focus helps her sister Simone (Milly Alcock) depart her boss Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore), a dame of the island’s excessive society.
When taking over this function, she skipped a cellphone name to Mike White, asking for any pointers. “I feel the character that I performed in White Lotus of Daphne and Devon on this present, Sirens, are so polar reverse, in most methods,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter of the characters on the premiere Tuesday. “The one storyline that I may establish between these two girls is simply that they’re underestimated. They aren’t what they look like at first look, and they’re misjudged for that.”
Within the second season of White’s cultural phenomenon The White Lotus, which follows the privileged lives of vacationers staying at a luxurious resort, Fahy’s character Daphne is married to financier Cameron (Theo James). And whereas the opposite characters assume she’s superficial at first, she proves to be much more advanced all through the collection because the dynamics together with her husband are revealed.
Nevertheless, Fahy addressed the similarities between the present’s themes. “In fact everybody’s obsessive about wealth and dissecting it and making enjoyable of it and all these issues, so there’s numerous that taking place nowadays,” she stated.
Despite the fact that each season of The White Lotus begins with a thriller loss of life, by the top of the present, it might be straightforward to label who the present’s villain is, however what unravels at all times makes it extra advanced than naming only one. And in Sirens, there’s rather a lot to be stated concerning the class system, too.
“Society is the actual villain,” Alcock stated. “It’s the pressures that these girls should repairs. Not solely these girls, however these males.”
Castmember Josh Segarra thinks the darker moments are due to “greed” and “everybody wanting extra.”
In the meantime, Fahy, believes the present is all about “notion and the way we see individuals and the way we misjudge individuals.”
Sirens drops on Netflix Thursday.