Warning: This interview contains spoilers fromBad Sisters, including the finale episode.
I started out going like, ‘Oh, no one’s watching it.’
And now I’m like, ‘Oh!
Becka (Eve Hewson), Eva (Sharon Horgan), Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), Ursula (Eva Birthistle), and Bibi (Sarah Greene) on ‘Bad Sisters’.Natalie Seery/Apple TV+
People watched it.’
It’s been absolutely glorious."
Based on the Flemish seriesClan,Bad Sistersopens with a death.
Claes Bang as John Paul Williams in ‘Bad Sisters’.Natalie Seery/Apple TV +
(A perfect opener to set the tone for the 10-episode story.)
The series then quickly pivots to the mystery surrounding John Paul’s death.
Who actually did the deed?
Anne-Marie Duff as Grace Williams in ‘Bad Sisters’.Natalie Seery/Apple TV +
It’s a mystery to even the sisters until the very end.
“So lots of people coming into my DMs and offloading their family, toxic men.
So translating that into the Irish ‘mammy,’ and we went fullbore with it.
Sometimes we had to say to Claes, ‘That’s enough with the mammy.’
It was such a small thing, but it did so much.”
That he’s an attractive man and Grace still is really attracted to him.
The challenge was to confirm John Paul never went too far.
A divorce wasn’t enough.
He would still have a hold over Grace.
He needed to be put down.
He would always manage to survive.
Then, when he actually died, it was a question of whodunnit?
Was it one of the sisters?
Did one of them finally take it upon themselves and finish the job?
There were other suspects, as well.
Here’s where the second spoiler warning comes in.
Read no further if you wish to keep the finale a secret.
Duff discusses the importance of Grace being the one to kill John Paul.
“I think a couple of things.
One is there’s something incredibly frustrating about Grace,” she says.
You start to become infuriated by her.
You think, ‘Oh for God’s sake!’
because he’s so relentless.
So it’s a nice surprise for her to go, ‘Do you see all along?’
That was quite satisfying.
I thought that was just so brilliant.
She’s not rescued.
She rescued herself."
In the end, it always comes back to the sisters.
John Paul admits to Grace that he raped Eva years earlier, resulting in her pregnancy and eventual miscarriage.
“But it was an awful lot going on in that scene and in that whole episode.”
Watch the full roundtable interview with the five stars ofBad Sistersabove.
All episodes of season 1 are available to binge on Apple TV+.
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