He’s received his cowboy hat on.
Dermot Mulroney could also be finest identified for “The Wedding Date” and “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” however his new Netflix present “The Hunting Wives” is like “the anti rom-com” — in keeping with the actor.
“They don’t have any romance, and they don’t have any comedy….except love affairs and naughty sex,” Mulroney, 61, completely instructed The Put up.
“[It] takes itself just seriously enough that you can find all sorts of ways to look at it,” he defined. “You can see it as a serious drama, or you can take it a little lighter, or at least a little bit over-the-top right in their styles in their choices.”
The soapy drama relies on the 2021 novel and follows Sophie (Brittany Snow), who strikes along with her husband, (Evan Jonigkeit), from Massachusetts to Texas.
Sophie quickly finally ends up entangled within the net of her new good friend Margo Banks (Malin Akerman), the Queen Bee chief of the local people. Margo presides over a clique of mothers and socialites who like taking pictures weapons and dancing with males half their age.
Jed (Mulroney) is Margo’s husband, who’s considering a run for the Governor of Texas. Though Margo is having affairs with youthful women and men alike – and Jed can also be seeing different ladies – the couple is aware of about one another’s actions, and neither of them has an issue with it.
“I’m running for governor of Texas, so we don’t take that lightly, but I’ve got somebody who’s kind of running me, and her name is Margo Banks,” the “Scream VI” actor instructed The Put up.
“We are definitely a power couple in the upper social echelon down there in the oil country in Texas.”
“The Wedding Date” actor known as the novel a “page turner.”
“I think they expanded Jed’s role somewhat in the television series. Really, Jed is a man who makes his own decisions, but he is very much and perhaps toxically tied to his wife,” he defined. “They share goals. So, they have that in common.”
The “Chicago Fire” actor quipped that though Jed and Margo’s relationship isn’t a typical romance, “When you’re lying to the police about what your wife is doing…that can be considered love.”
“The Hunting Wives” additionally stars Jaime Ray Newman, Katie Lowes, George Ferrier and Chrissy Metz. All eight episodes can be found to stream.
