


Alexa, play “Ain’t That A Kick in the Head” by Dean Martin.
Meghann Fahy joined Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos on Live with Kelly and Mark on Monday, where the Sirens star rehashed her run on The White Lotus Season 2.
“Your character was so brilliant,” Ripa gushed of Fahy’s portrayal of Daphne Sullivan. “It was such good casting and the way you played her was so breathtaking that it was almost like — I felt like I was watching a vacation documentary.”
Fahy replied, “Wow. Oh my gosh, that’s so nice.”
Before Ripa proceeded with discussing the sophomore season of the HBO drama that aired in 2022, she issued her own “spoiler alert” to viewers.
“Listen, spoiler alert. Too late. You are behind if you haven’t seen it,” she quipped. “But you discover the dead body in the beginning of the show that kicks us all off.”
Of course, Ripa is referring to Tanya McQuoid (played by Jennifer Coolidge), who Fahy’s Daphne finds in the ocean in Season 2, Episode 1, “Ciao” — though fans only learn of the body’s identity in the Season 2 finale.
“What was it like filming that scene?” Ripa asked. “Because I would think having to get in the water, out of the water… Did they get it all in one take?”

Fahy shared, “You would think that. I wasn’t thinking that before.”
Ripa added, “It’s all I think about.”
Fahy agreed, “Now, it’s all I think about when I read a script and there’s anything in the water. I’m always like, ‘Hang on.’ It’s so much more difficult and so much more drawn out than it appears to be, and so learning that was really interesting.”
She explained that “the water was so shallow so far out,” so their exact shooting location for the scene was “so far from the shore.”
“And so then I was having to run through the water from where we were back to the beach,” she added.
Consuelos noted that must be “tiring,” and asked Fahy if Coolidge was “in the water” during the scene.
Fahy recalled, “They did put her in the water for a couple of the shots. They were trying to get her face, and the camera was under the water. And they wanted my foot to come into frame. But I couldn’t see where the camera or she was because of where they wanted my body to be positioned, so I was just kind of blindly feeling around. I did accidentally make contact with her face at one point.”
Fortunately, Fahy said that Coolidge “was so gracious about it.”
“She was like, ‘Man, you gotta do what you gotta do. Go for it,'” she continued.
Ripa said, “That’s a very Jennifer Coolidge thing to say.”
Fahy agreed, “Yeah, it was very sweet.”
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