‘Sirens’ season 2? Meghann Fahy about final secrets, Future plans

Spoiler alert: This story discusses important plot developments from this season of ‘Sirens’, which is now streaming on Netflix.

Meghann Fahy is on a career -Hot Streak, starring in Buzzy series such as “The White Lotus” and “The Perfect Couple” and films, including “Your Monster” and “Drop”. Many of her characters are known as perfectly felled, elegant women who hide secrets to keep track of the performances. Nevertheless, Fahy clears up in discussing her new role in the “Sirens” series – one that is completely against the type.

“Devon is one of my favorite characters I once played,” she says. “There is something like that liberating about her, because she is so ruthless herself, regardless of her environment. She says what is in her mind and does not think about how other people think about it. That is certainly not How I go through the world. ”

“Sirens”-of “Maids” creator Molly Smith Metzler-Is the story of Fahy’s Devon, a female woman who cares for her always sick father, Bruce (Bill Camp), who is on her way to a mysterious property in New England to confront her sister, Simone (Milly Alcock). Simone is the dutiful personal assistant for an ultra-rich socialite called Michaela (Julianne Moore), who, according to Devon, may also be a murderous cult leader. Unnecessary to say that the pronounced, combat-driven Devon at the front door of Michaela’s Ultra-Chic is a pastel world, there is a struggle for the wills.

At important moments in the show, Devon and Michaela Square, while the two are constantly fighting about who is closer to Simone and debating whether she should go to Buffalo to take care of Bruce. Fahy says she was blown away at those moments by the generosity of her iconic scene partner.

“Julianne Moore must mention, some of the names I call her in this show, was the craziest experience I have ever had on a set,” she says. “It was very surreal to just make eye contact with her, in general. But she is even better than you can imagine, and so well -founded and generous and a real professional. I just did my best to follow her leadership.”

Despite their tête-à-têtes during the series, one of the last scenes shows that both women make a solemn ferry ride from the estate, while Michaela’s husband Peter (Kevin Bacon) is abruptly dumping for Simone. While both Devon and Michaela drift away, there is humility and understanding between them, much softer than in one of their earlier interactions.

“That scene was very moving for me,” says Fahy. “I thought it was great that it was this moment when these two women recognized that they wrongly assessed the other person and in their own way apologized for it and the other wanted to be well on what their journey would be afterwards. It is such a powerful note for the show to end, because I think there is a lot of abuse on the show.

The grief that both characters are displayed when leaving Simone speaks with the connections that Alcock could make with her colleague actors. Although the two sisters are completely different, a hard-drinking shit-alter who uses transactional sex, while Simone focuses on hard work, preppy outfits and her type-a-drive-warden both personalities developed as a result of serious trauma of when they were children.

“We spent a lot of time together, and it was an easy sister dynamics from the start,” says Fahy. “I felt very protective for her, a bit of course in the way that Devon also does in the show. At one point we filmed in New York, and I live there. So when she came to the city, I couldn’t wait to hang around. I dragged her in place, and always made a joke that I always wanted to hang out,” I have always wanted to hang out! “

This natural Zusterly dynamics provided a flexible emotional canvas, which was useful because the entire plot of the series was mysterious for the actors, even when they started production.

“What was interesting was that we were good at filming before we knew where it went,” says Fahy. “We didn’t know how it would end. We had three blocks: we shot the first two episodes together, the second two episodes together, and then the last episode in themselves. We had three different directors. So it was an incredible unveiling when we got the final script and said,” “That is What happened!’

“I was so surprised to hear that Simone ends with Peter, but the more I thought about it, the more I said:” Do you know what? This feels realistic to me, “she says.” It makes sense to me that Simone would think: “There is no way to go back to Buffalo in hell. I will do everything that is needed to avoid that. ” It also felt that Devon would go home. There is a powerful moment when Devon says goodbye after Simone has already run away, because that is accepting her the truth, accepting that her sister does not want to be at home and does not go home, and she may not know her after this moment and just in peace with it.

“I think Devon is going back a completely different person,” she continues. “You see a huge evolution with her. And I think if she goes home, she won’t drink anymore. I don’t think she sees Ray [Josh Segarra] As Ray more. I would like to bring herself together a bit and leaves more self -respect than she arrived. Although she stays and is ultimately stuck to take care of Dad, she has now actively made her choice, and there is power for her. “

Although the story of “Sirens” feels complete – and is marketed as a limited series by Netflix – Fahy says that she would be a game to tell more stories in that universe.

“It ends in a very natural way, but I can imagine what the worlds of the characters will be,” she says. “For example, I would like to know what happens to Michaela, where she is going. So I think it is certainly within the empire of the possibility. We didn’t talk about the set, but I would like to do more.”