Julianne Moore shares awkward scenes with Meghann Fahy in dark comedy 'Sirens'

What is this place and why does everyone look like an Easter egg. Is this still their property? Mikayla, she's my boss. I get to call her Kiki. It's a really special honor. Hey, hey! Whoa, you're shielding a scepter? That's a look at the brand new series Sirens. It is filled with feuding sisters, a rich boss, and a weekend at a lavish private island. It stars Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon, and Megan Fahey. And Julianne joins us now. Julianne, great to see you and welcome to The Morning Show here in Canada. Hi, good morning. How are you? We are well. We are well. Okay, Julianne, you need to help me with this because I'm not sure what to make of your character Kiki. What are your thoughts on her? Well, I loved playing Kiki because I think that when you see her initially, you will have a lot of thoughts about her and maybe quite a bit of judgment. But as the show goes on, you learn more about her and learn that she's not exactly what you perceive her to be. All right, well listen, we want to ask you too about Megan Fahey, who was recently on our show. And she told us, Julianne, that she hated having to be mean to you, even though it was all acting. I love her too. My God, I love Megan. She is so talented and so lovely. I mean, she really is. She's just absolutely a joy to work with. I love what she did. She's incredibly funny, really, really quick. And both she and Millie Alcock, who plays Simone, are extraordinary in this. Really, really wonderful. And it was just a thrill to be with them every day and to watch what they did together. Yeah, okay, so we were wondering, because that made her uncomfortable, having to be mean to you. Was there anything that made you uncomfortable, maybe holding those big birds? Oh, I love those birds. I have to say that was one of the thrills of the show. I'm actually a bird person. I really like birds a lot. I've handled a lot of not quite as big as these birds. I mean, and these are falcons. But there's actually a scene, I think it's the third episode, where I had been talking to the bird handler about this bird who's kind of like a teenage bird, but he's pretty big, like this size. And I had been feeding him a little bit, trying to get him to eat and stroking him. And he seemed pretty shy. But right in the middle of the scene, I had my hand out, he jumped onto my hand. So I won him over in the scene, which is an absolute thrill for me. And it's captured in the show. So you'll get to see it yourselves. Okay, so you love the birds, but you did not. You did not love your husband's crocs. Your husband, of course, played by Kevin Bacon. You did not want the crocs. So we need to know what in real life irks Julia. Well, I will say that that scene was familiar to me, because it's that thing where you've been working hard to get ready to go out. And my husband will have just come in like from playing basketball or something. And I'm like, you know, we have to get the car like in five minutes. And I mean, the thing is that he can get ready in five minutes. So I think that's probably what irks me the most is that he can get ready in five minutes and takes me an hour and a half. So that might be the most challenging. Also want to ask you about Margot Robbie, who, of course, is one of the executive producers behind this series. How was this pitch to you in the beginning? This was something that was just, you know, I just received the scripts and I read them and I thought they were absolutely delightful and was so happy to get to do them. And I think that what Margot and is doing with her company, Lucky Chop, is just extraordinary. They're producing a lot of films that are so interesting and very female centric. And this was a great, great production group, too. There were lots of female producers and female directors and production designers and A.D.'s. And it was a very female centric show. Julian, last time I interviewed you, it was at TIFF for the room next door on the red carpet. More recently, the world saw you at Cannes more than a decade ago. You won Best Actress for David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars. What do you love most about Cannes? Oh, my God, that festival is just first of all, it's glorious there. I mean, the pictures don't do it justice. That's so beautiful right on the water. And when the sun is shining, there's nothing like it. I think it's a festival that really is about filmmakers. And one of my favorite things is that when you go and see a film there, when the director walks in with their cast, you know, everybody applauds, everyone turns, they watch them. They're really there to celebrate that person's work. And that's very, very rare in our business. We obviously we make a lot of things. There are lots of premieres and everything. But it's it but it really is about that very first moment that a film meets an audience and that you feel very privileged to get to see it. All right. Well, you love Cannes and I know everybody is going to love this new series Sirens. Julianne, such a pleasure having you with us here this morning on The Morning Show. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Nice to talk to you both. And Sirens is streaming now on Netflix.