{"id":123174,"date":"2025-11-09T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/123174\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T00:01:09","slug":"sarah-snook-dakota-fanning-tease-all-her-fault-plot-twists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/123174\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Snook, Dakota Fanning Tease ‘All Her Fault’ Plot Twists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Sarah Snook-led<\/a> Peacock<\/a> thriller All Her Fault<\/a> quickly drops viewers into a parent\u2019s nightmare, kicking off with a mother discovering that her 5-year-old child is missing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough the search for this child drives the plot, the storyline takes a number of dramatic twists and turns, with dark secrets revealed about the show\u2019s adult characters, including central couple and parents of the missing child, Marissa (Snook) and Peter Irvine (Jake Lacy).<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd the team behind the show, speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at Monday\u2019s New York premiere, teased that the audience will not be able to predict what happens.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou will never guess. Not only will you never guess, but you\u2019ll never guess what happens after you find out what happens,\u201d Jay Ellis<\/a>, who plays Marissa\u2019s best friend Colin Dobbs told THR of the show\u2019s multiple twists. \u201cThere\u2019s a giant turn in the penultimate, and then there\u2019s a giant turn in the finale and like we all read it and were like, \u2018What the?\u2019 Every single one of us. None of us saw it coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSnook adds, \u201cIt\u2019s a big ride. The family dynamics reveal so much, and there\u2019s so much there to mine, which was so great as an actor to really get into the meat of the show and the story. It\u2019s not just about a kid that goes missing. I have friends who have kids who are like, \u2018Oh can I watch a show about a missing kid? I don\u2019t know if I can handle it.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Trust me, you can handle it; it\u2019ll be OK.\u2019 And there\u2019s a great twist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDakota Fanning<\/a>, who plays Marissa\u2019s friend and a fellow mom, Jenny Kaminski, and recently revealed that she likes to spoil things for herself<\/a>, was told early on what happens \u2014 \u201cbecause I wanted to know as I always do,\u201d she said. But she was still \u201cvery surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI really didn\u2019t see that coming,\u201d she said. \u201cI was really shocked by the twists and turns that are revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMinkie Spiro, who directed the first half of the season and serves as an executive producer, insisted that \u201cpeople are going to be blindsided.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor somebody that has worked in TV for a while. I\u2019m always like, if I read a book that I\u2019m adapting, I think, \u2018I kind of saw that coming, but we can massage that in the script.\u2019 This, when I read the book, I wasn\u2019t expecting that,\u201d she said, urging audiences to go in \u201copen minded\u201d but inquisitive.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cIt\u2019s great when you go into a show and you start to think, \u2018Oh, maybe it\u2019s him. Maybe it\u2019s her. Or maybe that\u2019s what happened there.\u2019 Like, I want the audience to have those thoughts and ideas so that then they can see whether or not they saw it coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough, as Spiro indicates, viewers do have a hack to discover what happens: the book of the same name on which the series was based.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile some things have been changed from the book to the series, including the setting switching from Dublin to Chicago, both kick off with a missing child<\/a>, specifically with Marissa showing up to pick up her son from a playdate only to be told by the woman who answers the door that she has never heard of the kid.<\/p>\n

\n\tMarissa\u2019s frantic initial attempts to find him and figure out what happened create a suspenseful, frightening opening.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd executive producer Gareth Neame wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe number of scripts that we work on that we have difficulties getting a show airborne, I can\u2019t think of another show that we\u2019ve done to this degree where you really are in from the first shot, from the doorbell ringing on that front door and that front scene,\u201d he told THR at Monday\u2019s premiere. \u201cIt\u2019s not only the cliche that it\u2019s any mother\u2019s worst nightmare, it\u2019s actually any member of the audience\u2019s nightmare. Within seconds, it hooks you in. So I think it\u2019s a fantastic, bold arresting opening of the show. And I wish we could find openings like this more often.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShowrunner Megan Gallagher said there was \u201cno hesitation\u201d about starting the series with such an unsettling development, mirroring the beginning of the book.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was a no-brainer from the get-go,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd now that it\u2019s on screen, it\u2019s a great way to open the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was that opening that helped attract Ellis to the project.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe writing was so gripping and fast. I have a child, and in the first four minutes of this thing you find out that Marissa\u2019s child is missing and my mind immediately exploded because I think I read it and my daughter might\u2019ve been on a playdate at the time. That immediately gripped me,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then as you go through and you meet all of these characters and hear their backstory, I think all of them are so layered for so many different reasons, and you want to root for all of them but you also kind of think one of them is the culprit as well, which is what a thriller does so well and makes you love somebody and then look at them with a side eye at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd Spiro, though she didn\u2019t direct the entire season, hinted that she included some clues to later developments in the first half.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAny time I take on a show and I\u2019m doing the pilot, I actually create the entire arc of the show, which I then talk through to the next director so that there is a vision. So there are a lot of a lot of things visually we set up that wouldn\u2019t pay off unless the director that does the episodes after me follows through,\u201d Spiro said. \u201cSo that was very much an important part of the deal when we brought another director on was to make sure that they honor the visual arc of the show. So when I create a show, I\u2019m always looking at top to tail. So it\u2019s a show where there were some various specific visual clues, which obviously I don\u2019t want to give away at this point, but they were very specific things that subtly adjusted as twists and toes and the characters true colors start to unfold.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpiro, though she wanted the audience to \u201clean in\u201d to wondering what happened to this child, said she was also trying to tease out the series\u2019 look at gender dynamics in parenting.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is something that we try to inject as a sub layer, which all about what it\u2019s like, primarily in heterosexual relationships, where the woman is often expected to do the heavy lifting of the child business,\u201d Spiro said. \u201cAnd so there is a social commentary underneath this thriller.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNeame adds, \u201cThe title itself is really speaking to how a couple, both holding down professional jobs, somehow it\u2019s the woman who still has to do domestic duties as well as professional work and the husband or the father invariably doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s kind of using the [hook] of the thriller to really look deeply at contemporary relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAll eight episodes of All Her Fault<\/a> are now streaming on Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sarah Snook-led Peacock thriller All Her Fault quickly drops viewers into a parent\u2019s nightmare, kicking off with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77937,19513,146,2323,85,46,78008,3167,1979,75868],"class_list":{"0":"post-123174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-all-her-fault","9":"tag-dakota-fanning","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-events","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-jay-ellis","15":"tag-peacock","16":"tag-red-carpet","17":"tag-sarah-snook"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}