The Looking Wives is a type of 2025 Netflix releases that’s been all the fad because it turned accessible to stream in July. The title, which is simply taking part in for these with a Netflix subscription within the U.S., has remained within the High 10 for 5 weeks straight with critics applauding it, and audiences speaking about its nudity and soapy pizazz. However one other widespread subject across the present is Malin Akerman’s wigs on the present.
Followers have been speaking rather a lot in regards to the main star’s wig, with Twitter calling it every part from “diabolical” to “attractive” and simply plain outdated “unhealthy”. When Akerman was requested about it on the Not Skinny However Not Fats podcast, she shared the actual motive for Margo’s odd wig scenario. As she began to inform in her phrases:
I had a wig becoming in L.A. and so they go off and make a wig that’s sized for my head. Nicely, we get to North Carolina [to film the show] and put the wig on, and it matches nice, nevertheless it’s not fairly the colour or the form that we had talked about.
Because the actress defined, she was fitted for her Looking Wives wig in Los Angeles, earlier than heading to North Carolina to shoot the present, however as soon as she tried it on the collection’ creator Rebecca Cutter was not pleased with the way it turned out. As Akerman continued:
She’s like, ‘Oh, this is not what we talked about. This is not the wig that we had been hoping for.’ It seemed just a little bit like I might walked out of Dallas or Dynasty. I am not gonna lie, it was not nice.
This was throughout a display take a look at for The Looking Wives, however apparently there wasn’t sufficient time to order a brand new one, so Akerman recollects the “poor” hair woman on set going by a field of wigs she had available and having the actress attempt them on earlier than one in every of them (which was not made for her particular head) ended up being the wig she wore on the shoot. Akerman additionally stated this:
You see me getting glammed up, and I’ve received like tin foil in my hair on the wig as a result of the brand new wig was lighter.
As soon as Akerman’s new wig did are available in, it ended up being a lighter shade than the primary one she was carrying, so that they determined to movie a scene the place Margo is getting her hair finished with a view to clarify her totally different hair for the remainder of the season. It’s wild how issues like that occur on units, proper? For anybody who clocked this whereas watching the present, hopefully you may really feel validated now!
When the host requested Akerman why she wore a wig within the first place, the actress shared that she had a bob on the time, and really has had some thyroid issues which might have sophisticated Margo’s hair being lengthy and full like it’s within the present. Nevertheless, ought to there be one other season, she thinks she would deal with issues in a different way. As she stated:
Considering of dyeing it and placing extensions in and stuff, it was simply gonna begin falling out. If we get a second season, we will go along with the dyeing.
Given the success of The Looking Wives on the 2025 TV schedule, we wouldn’t be shocked to see a Season 2, however we’ll have to attend and see. For now, benefit from the first season’s humorous array of wigs.