Meghann Fahy Embraces Typecasting Following Roles in ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘Perfect Couple’ | Entertainment

Meghann Fahy is in her homicide thriller exhibits period. And there’s an enormous hyperlink between her latest bingeworthy choices.

Spoiler alert for anybody who hasn’t caught up on 2022’s White Lotus season two: In the Sicily-set season of the Mike White HBO collection, Fahy’s character was the one who found a physique washed ashore. The premiere scene stored the individual’s id hidden, kicking off the season-long whodunnit that finally unmasked Jennifer Coolidge because the deceased.

And now, a spoiler alert for anybody who hasn’t began bingeing Netflix‘s Perfect Couple: That collection, which launched all episodes Sept. 5, kicks off with Fahy being discovered useless in the water, kicking off one other season-long thriller about who killed her charachter. (If you need to know the reveal, head right here.)

“I do feel like it’s working,” Fahy mentioned on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show (beneath), of leaning into the style. “So from here on out, it’s just going to be bodies in the water for me.”

During her late-night look on Tuesday, she peeled again the Hollywood movie-making strategy of enjoying useless. Both her and Fallon agreed it was OK to spoil the premise of the present, since Perfect Couple has develop into a streaming hit in the 2 weeks because it launched.

‘It’s referred to as lifecasting,” she defined of the make-up and particular results course of of constructing her useless physique double. “They very, very slowly over the course of six hours, pour two different types of silicone all over you. They do it in two sections [the lower and upper half]. And then they put plaster on top of that. The worst part, though, was when they did the head.”

She and Fallon confirmed images from the make-up division of Fahy’s molding course of, ensuing in a really lifelike double. Fahy even introduced along with her an on-set image of her with the double.

“It’s kind of an indescribable experience,” she mentioned of the double take. “It’s very strange to see your body in actual space.”

When chatting about her White Lotus scene with a useless physique, Fahy revealed that she unintentionally kicked her costar Coolidge in her face whereas filming.

“I felt so bad,” she mentioned. “They wanted to get a shot under water of my foot making contact with her body, but I couldn’t see where her body was, so she was just like floating, waiting for my foot to enter her general space. And I hit her in the face by accident, and she came up from the water and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so sorry.’ And she was like [in a Coolidge impression], “Hey man, you gotta just go for it. Don’t worry about me.'”

Fahy additionally talked concerning the choreographed dance sequence that opens Perfect Couple, admitting that it was very troublesome to study the dance strikes. “If you can’t beat ’em or join ’em, just do your own thing,” she mentioned of the transfer she provided up through the sequence. She then taught Fallon the choreography, which the solid performs to the tune of Meghan Trainor’s “Criminals.”

Susanne Bier, who tailored Elin Hilderbrand’s homicide thriller for Netflix, lately advised The Hollywood Reporter that the musical opener, which was filmed in an hour and a half, was designed to convey the comedian tone of the present to viewers, regardless of the collection that includes a homicide at its heart.

“I felt that the title sequence needed to be something which was suggestive that the audience is allowed to have fun with this show,” she mentioned. “There’s something joyous in a lot of people dancing together. And with all these characters, who are not necessarily sympathetic, having that moment, just seemed right to me.”