Sophia Soto
When Jake Lacy is involved in a project, you know he has something up his sleeve, and a perfect example of that is his performance as Peter Irvine in All Her Fault. Despite the title, it becomes very clear by the end that what happened to the Irvine family is all Peter’s fault.
Carrie Finch (Sophia Lillis) didn’t kidnap Milo. She simply wanted her child back after Peter swapped their babies in a car accident that killed his son. The truth is eventually revealed, and Marissa (Sarah Snook) has no choice but to take matters into her own hands and murder her husband.
The show is based on the novel by Andrea Mara, who serves as an associate producer. “The script is certainly the final word; that’s the story that we’re telling. But also, I do find it helpful to read the books that these limited [series] or a film is based off of because there might be like, the texture, the description or something of a relationship or a moment that a version of that exists in the script, and in reading the book, it offers, I don’t know, just more information,” he shared regarding his approach to the adaptation. “I want more. More background, more insight, more information, and a better understanding of how I relate to that.”
“In the book, Peter’s older than Marissa. They’re less contemporaries, and he’s older by, I think, at least a decade. And then, his relationship to Colin, Jay Ellis’ character, there’s just a kind of coldness and being like, who is this young, handsome screw-up that keeps hanging around my wife? There’s a weirder kind of paternal thing between Marissa and Peter than there is in our story. But some of that was really helpful in creating, for myself, this discomfort or dislike around Colin and having that point of view on, even though Jay, Sarah, and I are all the same age, you know? So little things like that — they’re not huge character arc-changing things, but they just help inform a little more.”
Overall, the story does an outstanding job of showing just how unfairly women, specifically mothers, are portrayed by the media and viewed by society.
“What I find tricky, not with this project, but anything that starts to have an agenda as to why the story is being told, I’m pretty uncomfortable around, even if it’s an agenda I agree with. I’m like, let’s let the story do that. Let the story communicate that. We don’t need to put our thumb on the scale. We don’t need to soapbox this. If the story supports that vision and that social comment or narrative, it will come through in the telling of that story, and I do think that that’s the case here.”
Lacy continued to express, “I don’t seek them out, you know what I mean? I’m not like, ‘I’m doing it because of what it’s saying about society,’ but I’m here for it. I’m really glad to get to be a part of it and to always, with any character, but certainly in this case, and in regard to this question, is fulfilling or filling these characters who are coming up short with both, why they don’t see that, why they think that what they’re doing is fine. And also, because I have my own judgment around their lack of care and their lack of ability as characters, their lack of willingness to step up, to infuse some of those shortcomings into it is also fun.”
Watch Awards Radar’s full video interview with the actor below, where we talk about how he found out about the big plot twist, Peter’s death scene, building up the family dynamic, the deeper messaging, and much more.
All episodes of All Her Fault are streaming on Peacock.
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