Actor Jake Lacy (“The White Lotus” and “Apples Never Fall”) chatted about starring in the new mystery thriller series “All Her Fault,” which premiered on November 6th on Peacock.
The all-star cast features Sarah Snook, Dakota Fanning, Sophia Lillis, Michael Peña, Abby Elliott, Jay Ellis, and Thomas Cocquerel.
The synopsis of this suburban thriller series is: Marissa Irvine (Sarah Snook) arrives to collect her young son Milo from his first playdate, but the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognizes.
She doesn’t have Milo and has never heard of him. As every parent’s worst nightmare begins to unfold, new questions lead to deep secrets, revealing cracks in the Irvine’s seemingly perfect world until everything is left shattered.
‘All Her Fault’
On starring in “All Her Fault,” Lacy remarked, “It was wonderful. I mean, it’s an incredible cast and the scripts were so strong.”
“It’s exciting to get to play a character where his perception of himself is perhaps different than how other people see him,” he noted.
Playing his character Peter
Lacy was drawn to his character, Peter, for several reasons. “I liked trying to figure out how to have compassion for this person that makes some choices that I probably wouldn’t make,” he said.
“I also hope that there’s a little part in there where the audience says, ‘I get it. I see what he thinks he’s doing.’ I want them to see the humanity in him,” he noted.
“Not everyone is black hat, white hat, good guy, and bad guy. There is a gray area in there,” he added.
Transition from ‘The White Lotus’ to ‘All Her Fault’
When asked about his transition going from filming “The White Lotus” to “All Her Fault,” he remarked, “I mean, they are just two completely different jobs, and every job is a new job.”
“That exists perhaps in other people’s minds outside of my own, because peopel see me every couple of years in something. I’m living my normal life every day. So, one is a gig that I got to do a couple of years ago, and this is a different one,” he elaborated.
Lessons learned from the screenplay
On the lessons learned from this screenplay, Lacy reflected, “It taught me that I’m impatient.”
“They would release like one script and then another. I would be like ‘give me all the scripts, bud.’ I don’t think I changed as a person though,” he noted.
“I like to work at home. I like to be around my own kids, particularly when I’m making a series about children missing, you know?” he elaborated.
Working with Sarah Snook and the cast of actors
On working with Sarah Snook and the all-star cast of actors, Lacy shared, “They were all wonderful… exactly as advertised. They were incredibly talented, collaborative, thoughtful and great to hang out with.”
“It’s honestly a little tricky to do press with them because I end up just goofing off most of the time, and it looks a little unprofessional,” Lacy said with a sweet laugh.
The digital age
On being an actor and storyteller in the digital age, Lacy said, “It’s not for me, to be honest with you. That’s a whole world and a whole business, and more power to the people who are harnessing it for their own purposes.”
“I’m still about as analog as you can get as a human being… I want to be in a room with somebody and make a project and then go, ‘See, you do your thing now. I’m going to go’,” he explained.
“I don’t fight the digital age though. I feel like I used to fight it, that’s more like trying to sweep water back in the ocean,” he added.
Success
On his definition of the word success, Lacy said, “It’s a mix. It would be a lie to just say that it’s ‘artistic fulfillment’ because I like nice things and I want to have a comfortable life.”
“The reality of a capitalist society is that to do that, you have to have some access to funds. So, I’m finding a balance of being able to provide for my family,” he acknowledged.
“The actor, Michael Kelly, once said that he is ‘at the exact right level of fame’ that he wants to be in. He can call into a restaurant and get a good table, but he can also hang out with his kids and nobody really knows who he is or what he has been in, and I think that’s great. That seems just about right,” Lacy concluded.
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