Milly Alcock hears ‘Sirens’ call of Netflix’s dark comedy
Even if she s not scoring as Supergirl until next year Milly Alcock is flying high with Sirens Thursday s buzzy Netflix series Sirens scores as a lush look at the upper upper crust led by Julianne Moore s guru-like entrepreneur Michaela and her billionaire hubby Kevin Bacon and the army of aid they require from gardeners drivers cooks maids and Alcock s Simone easily Michaela s majority of devoted and driven assistant Simone s new life as handmaiden to the slightly sinister Michaela prompts a surprise visit from her older sister Devon Meghann Fahy of White Lotus They re trying to plan a gala over the Labor Day weekend Alcock explained in a phone interview and my sister Devon arrives and causes havoc It s about the unraveling of the weekend Simone we discover is complicated given to curating bits of her life into an alternate reality Where did Alcock begin with someone so contradictory I started by reading the script over and over again We were sent the first three episodes of because Molly likes to write as she shoots We didn t definitely know the ending until we were about halfway through filming In that scenario what guides you Inherently it s your instincts In terms of the overall arc creator showrunner writer Molly Smith Metzler was unfailingly on set Invariably asking us for our opinions willing to change lines if we had questions about what things meant She was constantly there So I knew what was going to happen by the end even if I didn t really know how we were going to get there Her meteoric rise getting to these starry plateaus My big break was House of Dragon as the teenage Rhaenyra Targaryen Honestly she declared of acting it was the only thing I was good at I was I m serious a terrible trainee I would try really hard and I would fail exams and was held back Then I ultimately dropped out of school The training system just never worked for me and my brain I uncovered acting was a great outlet I had a lot of feelings as a kid and I didn t know where to put them Acting was a place that I felt where I could be of value So I was like Oh yeah I m gonna make this work somehow As to her career The older I ve gotten the more I ve longed to be a bit more savvy with my time I don t want to be a movie star That s not the goal The goal is to be happy make good work and just enjoy my life Sirens streams on Netflix May Milly Alcock as Simone and Kevin Bacon as Peter Kell in Sirens Photo Macall Polay Netflix
