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Jake Lacy had to get through the intensity of filming All Her Fault somehow.
The 39-year-old actor offered a look into life behind the scenes during the making of the new Peacock thriller at the New York City screening in November. To fill his free time, Lacy tells PEOPLE he took up some interesting hobbies and found a new routine.
“Sarah [Snook] was playing ukulele and I bought a junkie little guitar,” he recalls. “I play a bit of guitar and so we would play on set. She’s wonderful at harmonizing and I’m terrible at it. But also it was like, ‘There was no judgment.’ No one was like, ‘It’s not very good. Can you stop doing that?’ So that was to keep our stamina on set.”
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“Off set, I found a 24 hour gym,” he continues. “The transport guys would drop me there every day after work, and I would chew Nicorette and just be, like, grinding my teeth in this gym at all hours looking like a psycho.”
Lacy says he also discovered a restaurant called Deep End Pizza, which he describes has “successfully” mastered Chicago, New York, New Haven and Detroit style pizzas despite being in Australia, where the show was filmed.
“It’s insane,” he notes, going on to joke, “I have no connection to them. I have no sponsorship, and I’m out here like, ‘If you’re in Melbourne, check it out,’ hoping I can get a little free slice next time I’m in town.”
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All Her Fault is based on Andrea Mara’s 2021 novel of the same name and follows Snook’s Marissa Irvine, a mother who goes to pick up her son Milo from a playdate at the home of new friend Jenny Kaminski (Dakota Fanning), only to find that the person who opens the door is a stranger who has never heard of her child.
Lacy plays Marissa’s husband, Peter, as the couple launches a frantic search for their son. Once detectives get involved, Jenny’s nanny, Carrie Finch (Sophia Lillis), becomes the prime suspect. And although Milo is eventually returned, Carrie — whose real name is Josephine Murphy — remains at large.
Throughout the eight episodes, more lies start unraveling. The cast also includes Jay Ellis and Abby Elliot.
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While All Her Fault is not based on a true story, it was inspired by real-life events. In 2021, Mara — who also serves as an associate producer on the series — wrote essay for The Irish Independent explaining that the plot is based on an experience that occurred in April 2015, when she went to collect her daughter from a playdate but arrived at an unoccupied house.
When nobody answered the door, the author said she began theorizing about an “elaborate kidnap plan.” Nearly five minutes later, she reconnected with her daughter after learning she had gone to an old address. But the moment made Mara think about “how much trust we place in other people when it comes to our kids; when we send them off to school and crèche and playdates and parties.”
All eight episodes of All Her Fault are available to stream on Peacock.
