We talked to Michelle de Swarte, who stars in the new horror-comedy about a child-free woman who finds herself stuck with an adorable, homicidal infant.
by a trio of stand-ins and some realistic-looking dolls, made for great co-workers. “The babies were super cute and actually really well behaved,” de Swarte said, “If you can judge a baby for behavior.”horror-comedy series, which airs its second episode on Sunday night, isn’t as big a fan of the tiny tykes.
Through it all, Natasha struggles to extricate herself from the baby’s murderous thrall, all while keeping him in clean diapers. The show, which was created by Lucy Gaymer and Siân Robbnis-Grace, toggles adroitly between humor , scares, and the quieter, more chilling terror baked into the series’ nightmare tale of maternity.
The show marks an early acting role for de Swarte, who’s best known for her work as a comedian—which is what ultimately led to her landing the part of Natasha. In the early days of London’s coronavirus lockdowns, de Swarte swore off remote performances. “I was like, ‘No, stand up should be in front of a live audience,’” she says. “And then a few months in I was like, ‘Okay, it’s time to adapt.’ And so I started doing corporate gigs over Zoom.” She caught the eye of casting directorduring a remote show for Bywaters’ husband’s company. As soon as she saw the script, “I loved it,” de Swarte says.
As she’s still a newcomer to acting, working with wordless and tear-prone scene partners didn’t seem too out of the ordinary. “It was challenging, I can’t lie,” she said, of working so closely with small children. “I also am so new to acting that I didn’t really know any different, you know what i mean? I was kind of like, ‘Okay.’”
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