Brittany Snow admitted she was “actually upset” after a Searching Wives scene involving her character was lower.
Snow, 39, shared in the course of the Tuesday, October 28, episode of the “Not Skinny However Not Fats” podcast that the deleted scene supplied viewers extra context into Sophie O’Neil, her character on the Netflix drama that follows a homicide investigation in Texas.
“I’m not in it [the show] as a lot as … a whole lot of my half received lower,” she started earlier than detailing the lacking scene. “There was a scene in Searching Wives that I used to be actually upset received lower as a result of it form of made sense why my habits was so bizarre on the present. There’s a scene I learn in episode 8 the place she [Sophie] has this entire panic assault, breakdown … and she or he begins hitting herself and hitting her hand on the steering wheel and crying and screams.”
Snow continued, “Then she goes proper into stoicism and simply turns into utterly void and will get out of the automobile. I bear in mind considering, ‘Oh, that’s how she reacts to issues, she’s turn into so used to being a mom and a lady that can solely have her breakdowns in her automobile.’ So, I assumed, ‘Effectively, that’s how I’m going to play her character.’”
She concluded that “if you take that scene out, it simply seems to be like I’m utterly…” earlier than trailing off in laughter. “I liked that scene. I care about the truth that [Sophie] had coping mechanisms that I needed to work into the character.”
Snow, whose character strikes to the fictional city of Maple Brook the place she befriends a gaggle of rich socialites, famous in the course of the interview that she understood why some scenes wind up being omitted earlier than an episode is finalized.
“I do know that it was as a result of I’m a siloed story [and] it actually must be concerning the precise case and what occurred,” Snow stated, reiterating how a lot she enjoys engaged on the present. “I used to be simply so grateful to be part of it. I imply, really, it’s a present that I might watch and in order that’s at all times a marking of one thing I need to do.”
Snow added that she aired her issues over the lower scene to the present’s creator and author, Rebecca Cutter, who assured her the choice was made after some consideration. “They stated the episode was too lengthy. However they promised me, in season 2, it can make extra sense,” Snow advised host Amanda Hirsch. (It was revealed throughout season 1 that Sophie had a historical past of DUIs, together with one deadly accident, earlier than shifting to Texas along with her husband and son.)
In the course of the podcast, Snow additionally expressed her gratitude to costar Malin Akerman who she stated made her comfy whereas filming the pair’s intercourse scenes. “With Malin and I, we had been continuously like, ‘Are you OK? Can I put my hand right here?’ It was simply so good and so completely different,” Snow revealed. “We ate too many mints. I had a whole tub. It was folks pleasing, too. And she or he was like, ‘Lady, I don’t care.’”
Impressed by Could Cobb‘s e book of the identical identify, The Searching Wives season 1 was an eight-part collection that premiered in July. The present was initially filmed for Starz earlier than Lionsgate Tv acquired rights (and Netflix licensed U.S. rights to the collection for a 12 months). The change of palms resulted in elevated NSFW intercourse scenes than the present’s stars initially anticipated — not that they minded in any respect.
“It is extremely sadly uncommon to see girls [having sex on screen at 40]. There’s a stigma in Hollywood that after you attain 40, you’re not seen as a sexual being, which is totally false,” Snow stated in the course of the interview. “I like that our present introduced new mild to that. You don’t cease having intercourse when you’re 40.”
The Searching Wives is out there to stream on Netflix.
