Malin Akerman reveals startling wig mishap on“ The Looking Wives”: ‘It was not nice’

Malin Akerman is clearing up a serious thriller surrounding her viral wig on The Hunting Wives, Netflix's wildly common homicide thriller set in a fictional far-right Texas city.

Akerman performs Margo Banks, a rich socialite and chief of a clique of gun-toting, anti-abortion housewives with lethal secrets and techniques. Based mostly on Could Cobb's novel of the identical title, the debut season premiered final month and captured the zeitgeist for its sleazy, twisty enjoyable, eliciting a ton of buzz on-line — none the extra so than for Akerman's questionable wig.

Throughout an look on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast this week, Akerman confirmed that she did, in truth, don a couple of wig following an on set wig emergency.

"I had a wig becoming in L.A. and so they go off and make a wig that’s sized for my head," Akerman defined. "We get to North Carolina [to film the show] and put the wig on, and it matches nice, however it's not fairly the colour or the form that we had talked about."

Akerman then recalled showrunner Rebecca Cutter's displeased facial response when she noticed the wig for the primary time on set.

"She's like, 'Oh, this isn't what we talked about. This isn't the wig that we had been hoping for,'" Akerman recounted, quipping, "It seemed somewhat bit like I'd walked out of Dallas or Dynasty. I'm not gonna lie, it was not nice."

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A frantic stylist was in a position to pull another wig for Akerman from a field of wigs that day, and, whereas it wasn't the appropriate dimension for the actress' head, the colour and size was what the group initially had in thoughts, in order that they figured they might "do one thing with it," she mentioned.

Akerman used that wig whereas one other one was made, noting that the method takes weeks. "However when it got here, it was a unique coloration," she mentioned of the newly-crafted wig. Cutter and co. then bought inventive to deal with the colour discrepancy, including a scene wherein Margo will get her hair coloured whereas her husband Jed (Dermot Mulroney) gears as much as announce his run for governor.

"You see me getting glammed up, and I've bought like tin foil in my hair on the wig as a result of the brand new wig was lighter," Akerman defined.

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She famous that she opted out of merely dyeing her pure blonde hair as a result of her "hair high quality simply wasn't nice on the time," citing a thyroid concern.

"Considering of dying it and placing extensions in and stuff, it was simply gonna begin falling out," Akerman mentioned. "If we get a second season, we're going to go together with the dyeing."

Netflix has but to resume the hit drama for a second season, however given its success on the streamer and the forged's eagerness to return, a renewal appears doubtless.

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