Warning: This article contains spoilers fromBad Sistersseason 2, episodes 1 and 2.
I wanted the series to feel very recognizable but also quite different.
Then she realized how much serious subject matter was in season 1, and she changed her tune.
Eva (Sharon Horgan), Bibi (Sarah Greene), and Grace (Anne-Marie Duff) in ‘Bad Sisters’ season 2.Courtesy of Apple
Grace tells Ian what she did to John Paul, which causes him to leave.
If she does, she’s going to carry so much of the ongoing trauma of what happened.
It was such a heartbreaking place to be.
Grace (Anne-Marie Duff) in ‘Bad Sisters’ season 2.Courtesy of Apple
It makes my hair stand on end thinking about it.
In actual fact, it was really hard to envisage the series with five sisters.
I just couldn’t visualize it.
Sarah Greene as Bibi, Eva Birthistle as Ursula, Sharon Horgan as Eva, Anne-Marie Duff as Grace, and Eve Hewson as Becka on ‘Bad Sisters’ season 2.Natalie Seery/Apple TV +
I had to break them for build them up again."
“It gave them a whole new journey and reason,” Horgan adds.
Though, Horgan notes, “We shot it in case we changed our minds.”
It was all about the feeling of the moment.
“you might’t over-egg the emotion,” she explains.
“We had to be economical with what we showed and how we used emotion.
The thing of people wondering, ‘Is she dead?
Is she not dead?’
didn’t even enter our heads.”
Horgan remembers being “in bits” when she filmed that scene.
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“Sometimes I tap into stuff from my own life, which always hurts.
You feel weird doing it, but you do it,” she says.
I remember that feeling from when I was young.
We lived in a house at the top of a hill, never had any visitors.
When a car would pull up, the panic…you’d feel like something’s wrong.
Phone calls at night?
Something’s wrong."
Fortunately, she recalls watching an early screening of the premiere the night before speaking with EW in October.
There was so much laughter out of the theater, which came as a relief.
“My father passed away mid filming of this season,” she says.
But that’s how it is.
Also, I couldn’t give people a show that was about grief.
No one wants that."
Bad Sistersseason 2 will release new episodes on Apple TV+ every Wednesday.
