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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Netflix 'Sirens': Milly Alcock talks awkward gum sharing scene with Julianne Moore — 'I actually ate her gum'
FromThe White Lotus to The Perfect Couple, Meghann Fahy has thrived in stories centred around messy wealthy people, but her character in the Netflix series Sirens, starring alongside Julianne Moore and Milly Alcock, is a bit different for the actor. Fahy plays Devon, who we first meet as she's just released from a Buffalo police station after being held overnight, having to get herself home to her father Bruce, who has dementia, played by Bill Camp. Devon has lost touch with her sister Simone (Milly Alcock), but they have a word they use for emergencies, "sirens." Simone isn't answering any of Devon's messages, and she gets pushed over the edge when she finds an Edible Arrangement Simone sent waiting at her doorstep. That's when Devon decides to travel on Labor Day weekend (with the fruit arrangement) to an island occupied by the rich to get her sister's attention. Simone is a live-in assistant working for Michaela (Julianne Moore), who she calls "Kiki," a socialite and bird conservationist married to billionaire Peter (Kevin Bacon). Simone is also in the middle of a "summer fling" with a wealthy older man on the island, Ethan (Glenn Howerton). As Devon is quick to discover, Michaela and Simone are incredibly close. Simone helps her boss sext her husband while he's away, and Michaela even takes gum out of her mouth and gives it to Simone. "The gum scene, that was like my first day with her, and I actually ate her gum," Alcock told Yahoo Canada about working with Julianne Moore. "There was one [take], I thought they were going to use it, you know when you take gum out and it gets caught on your teeth, just a string." But gum aside, Alcock stressed that Moore was always an "open" and "accessible" actor, who comes to set "willing to play." It's the closeness between Michaela and Simone, and how Michaela is worshipped by the other wealthy women on the island, that makes Devon wonder if her sister is actually an assistant to a cult leader. But maybe Devon is just being dramatic. That's what we unpack throughout the show's eight episodes, in addition to Simone and Devon being really vulnerable with each other about how their present day actions have been impacted by the traumas of their childhood. There's one moment, which we won't entirely spoil, but it's a particularly impactful and emotional scene between the sisters after they leave a big dinner and talk about their past with each other, and their parents. Impressively, that scene was shot at around 10:00 p.m. at night, and Alcock and Fahy were "exhausted." "I think it's the most mature fight that we have in the show, they're just so honest with the way that they see each other and it's painful," Alcock said. "I'm so blunt with you ... I don't think there's any going back after that." "And I think the most real they are with each other," Fahy added. "The whole thing shifts after that." But while Michaela and Simone love each other, that's not the case for the rest of the staff, including Jose, played by Felix Solis. With a core part of his job being security for Michaela and her husband, he draws a line in the sand with Michaela that he's Peter's right hand, not hers. And with all of Michaela's odd antics, there's a particularly satisfying moment where Jose is able to stand up to Michaela and her demands for him. "It starts with the fact that you have a really good scene partner," Solis said about working with Moore. "A level of trust between actors allows you to be mean to each other, because it's not personal, it's not real, it's the story that needs to be told." "We never talked about it beforehand when we shot it, but I went ahead and trusted that I knew that, given who she is and how her energy is off-camera, that I was able to trust that she wouldn't take it personal and that she wouldn't say, 'What are you doing?' Or, 'Don't do that.'" Core to this moment in the show is how Solis navigates Jose being "direct," but there's still the "servitude" element. "There's really just only one moment for my character, throughout the story, where he gets to be direct. Everything else is covered, everything else is veiled," Solis explained. "Everything else is in servitude, which is, for me, one of my favourite colours to play, if you will. Servitude, for me, is always a beautiful thing to play, because I am an actor who's always doing something to the other person." "I don't care about what my character wants, I never have. I struggled with that earlier in my career as an actor, and I didn't know why. And then it was my mother that said, well the reason why you're struggling with an objective, which is what the character wants, is because you feel like you're not a selfish person, so you're butting up against who you are naturally. ... That's what allowed for that moment to happen. There was no selfish moment in that moment, ... it was about affecting her. It was about doing something to her." Glenn Howerton was also quick to praise Solis for that scene in particular, highlighting it as one of the best in the show. "It's such a testament to Felix as an actor, honestly, that he was able to convey power through the entire episode, yet subservience," Howerton said. "It would have been so easy to fall into the trap of being like, oh in this moment now I get to really show my power. ... And instead he did it with such lightness and humour that plays so against the message that he's sending, which is like, I don't even have to get mad. It's not a problem for me." "You always hear about actors, you want to play the opposite of a scene, in a way, and for a long time that didn't make sense to me. But that's a perfect example of one that's done really brilliantly well." The entire show is really a balancing act between emotional and traumatic moments in the lives of these characters, and having to reconcile with those experience, and laugh out loud comedy. It's not the easiest balance to strike, but a character like Bill Camp's Bruce is a perfect example. The realities of his dementia are difficult to sit with, the way he treated his daughters when they were young is disturbing, but he also offers the audience some serious laughs. "One thing that I was constantly thinking was, I'm looking for delight," Camp said. "Because somebody I know who is now progressively much worse in that position, and my age, at one point stated to me that was his goal every day, was to look for delight, because it is such a dark place." Fahy also highlighted that it was a "dream come true" to play Camp's daughter. "I've been such a fan of Bill's for so long, I couldn't believe that I was going to get to work with him in this capacity," Fahy said. "It was such a dream come true." "He's just such a thoughtful, egoless actor. He just cares about, why are we doing that? What's the motivation here? ... It was genuinely an honour to kind of witness him and his work, and the way that he kind of dropped into the character, and the tiny little choices that he would make that he wouldn't even tell anyone else about." The actor also highlighted that finding that all starts with a great script by Molly Smith Metzler, who was also regularly on set and open to the actors changing and adjusting their dialogue. "She was always ready to be like, 'You want to say something different? Do you want to try this line? Do you want change this word to this word?' Let's see," Solis said. "Then the improvisational child in us as actors gets to play."
New York Post
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
'It's Always Sunny' cast has discussed ending series
The gang is in a never ending story. 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' has been on the air for a record 20 years, running for more seasons than any other live action sitcom. Now, star Glenn Howerton is weighing in on whether he sees an ending in sight. 'It's hard to say. It changes often, season to season,' he exclusively told The Post while promoting his new Netflix series, 'Sirens.' 7 Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson and Charlie Day in a Season 7 episode of 'It's Always Sunny' that aired in 2011. 7 Glenn Howerton, Milly Alcock and Meghann Fahy in the new Netflix show 'Sirens.' ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' premiered in 2005 on FX, following a group of narcissistic and sociopathic friends who run a dive bar in the titular city. There's Dennis (Howerton), his sister Dee (Kaitlin Olson), their father Frank (Danny DeVito) and their friends Charlie (Charlie Day) and Mac (Rob McElhenney). With two decades under its belt, does the show have a conclusion on the horizon? 'There are some seasons where we're like, 'Oh, I can't do this anymore.' But there are other seasons where everyone is just really stoked and excited to be there, and excited to get the opportunity to continue exploring these insane characters in this insane world,' Howerton explained. 'We were quite invigorated this year. So, I think we're just taking it year by year.' 7 Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' Maint 7 Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton in a Season 14 episode of 'Sunny.' 7 Glenn Howerton attends Netflix's 'Sirens' World Premiere at The Plaza Hotel on May 20, 2025 in New York City. FilmMagic After each season, we 'check in with ourselves,' he noted. 'We never like to have those conversations about what the future of the show is when we finish a season. Because that's when we are like, 'Yeah, I'm done. I can't do this anymore.' It's always good to take a couple months off, and then have that conversation, like, 'Do we want to keep going?'' Their careers have all taken off since the show first premiered in 2005. Olson is now in the Emmy-winning HBO series Hacks' and 'High Potential.' McElhenney (who she's married to) had his Apple show 'Mythic Quest' and his docuseries with Ryan Reynolds, 'Welcome to Wrexham.' Day has been in in movies such as 'Horrible Bosses' and 'Pacific Rim,' and Howerton has led his NBC / Peacock sitcom, 'A.P. Bio' (which ran from 2018 to 2021). 7 Glenn Howerton, Kaitlin Olson in a 2019 episode of 'Sunny.' 7 Glenn Howerton, left, and Danny Devito in a 2008 episode of, 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' AP But, Howerton said, the 'Sunny' cast is not planning to leave for greener pastures on a permanent basis. 'We're still having such a blast working with each other. And, there seems to be endless ways to explore the world through these characters. So, we have no intention of stopping anytime soon.' Season 17 will premiere July 9 on FXX and stream the next day on Hulu.
New York Post
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Glenn Howerton on 'Sirens,' why he likes playing 'lunatics'
He's going from the D.E.N.N.I.S. system to the beach. Glenn Howerton, best known for starring in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' co-stars in the new Netflix miniseries 'Sirens' (premiering May 22). 'I had never read anything quite like this script, tonally. It's like a suspenseful drama, but it's also really funny,' Howerton, 49, exclusively told The Post. Advertisement The plot follows Devon (Meghann Fahy, 'The White Lotus'), who thinks her sister, Simone (Milly Alcock, 'House of the Dragon') needs to be rescued from her new job. Simone has been working for the wealthy socialite Michaela Kell (Julianne Moore) who Devon thinks is running a cult at her lavish beach estate. Kevin Bacon co-stars as Michaelas's husband Peter, and Howerton plays their friend and Simone's boyfriend, Ethan. 6 Glenn Howerton, Milly Alcock, and Meghann Fahy in 'Sirens.' Advertisement 6 Glenn Howerton attends the Netflix Premiere of Sirens at the Paris Theater on May 20, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images for Netflix '[Ethan is] so different from so many characters I play,' Howerton explained. '[But] he has an element of other characters I play. He's not a slob. He's a well put together rich dude, which is a little bit typecasting for me.' Ethan isn't fundamentally a bad person, despite being, 'a bit naive and oblivious at times,' the actor continued. 'I'm always getting cast as raving lunatics and maniacs, so it's nice to do something different, every once in a while.' Howerton has previously appeared on 'The Mindy Project,' 'Fargo,' and 'Blackberry,' and has played sociopathic Dennis Reynolds on 'It's Always Sunny' since its 2005 debut. Advertisement 'I do think a lot of actors enjoy playing things that are very different from themselves, and having the opportunity to – as Dennis would put it – wear another man's skin,' he quipped. 6 Charlie Day as Charlie, Rob McElhenney as Mac, Glenn Howerton as Dennis, Kaitlin Olson as Dee, Danny DeVito as Frank in 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.' 6 Glenn Howerton attends Netflix's 'Sirens' World Premiere at The Plaza Hotel on May 20, 2025 in New York City. FilmMagic 6 Meghann Fahy, Felix Solis, Julianne Moore, Josh Segarra, Milly Alcock and Glenn Howerton attend the world premiere of Netflix's 'Sirens' at The Plaza Hotel on May 20, 2025 in New York City. WireImage Advertisement 'For me, there's something cathartic about portraying characters that behave in a way that I would never behave. And getting to just be selfish and narcissistic and a bit of a jerk and just yell at people,' Howerton continued. 'I strive to be a good person in my real life, so it's fun to be bad. And I find them funny and sad and sort of pathetic — narcissists — and people that walk into the world not thinking about how their actions impact other people. I think it's a bit sad and definitely frustrating. So I like to send it up in a satirical way.' Since Howerton is 49 and Alcock is 25, their 'Sirens' characters are in an age-gap romance. 'That's just what it is in the story, so I approached that situation the way I would approach any similar situation, regardless of the person's age – with a lot of communication and respect on set, to make sure we're all on the same page with how we shoot the scenes,' he explained. 6 -Milly Alcock and Julianne Moore in 'Sirens.' 'Milly is just a consummate professional, it was a lot of fun.' As for his other co-star, Julianne Moore, he gushed: 'She's so cool.' Advertisement 'I think she's aware enough of her status within the business to want to put people at ease, as quickly as possible. She's possibly had experiences in the past where people were maybe intimidated to be around her, because she plays such powerful characters often, and she has such a powerful glowing presence.' It would be 'easy' to be intimidated by her, 'but she knocks those things down pretty quickly and is just a very grounded and wonderful person and a lot of fun to hang out with between scenes,' he concluded. 'She's not just there to be a giant movie star, she's a real artist.'
