Lily Rabe & Enrique Murciano Interview Tell Me Your Secrets

Lily Rabe & Enrique Murciano Interview: Tell Me Your Secrets

Stars Lily Rabe and Enrique Murciano chat about their upcoming mystery thriller, Tell Me Your Secrets, which premieres February 19 on Amazon.

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Lily Rabe & Enrique Murciano Interview Tell Me Your Secrets

Tell Me Your Secrets has been a story long in the making, moving from TNT in 2018 to Amazon Prime in 202o, and finally premiering its first season on February 19. The series, written and produced by Harriet Warner (Call The Midwife), follows three people with troubled pasts on a dark and twisted path to resolution.

One of them, Emma Hall (Lily Rabe, American Horror Story), is in witness protection after being accused of aiding and abetting her serial killer boyfriend’s crimes. Pete Guillory (Enrique Murciano, Rough Night) is assigned to her case and tries to help her work through her memories of the past, even as both of them struggle to trust one another.

Rabe and Murciano spoke to Screen Rant, along with several other press outlets, about the way they approached their characters and the affect the story’s heavy themes had on them.

Lily Rabe & Enrique Murciano Interview Tell Me Your Secrets

The dynamic between Pete and Emma/Karen is very complicated and intense. How did you both develop that relationship behind the scenes, and how do you juggle Emma being an unreliable narrator on top of the distrust between you?

Lily Rabe: Something I would say right off the bat about Enrique and working with him is that he’s fearless. He’s a fearless actor, and we weren’t afraid of going to the most complicated places in the relationship. For me, that’s why we were able to sort of live in it; live in the discomfort of it and live in the gray area of it. Because we weren’t coming at it from a place of fear, or of trying to make it safe for anyone else to understand what the relationship was.

Enrique Murciano: Yeah. I think early on, Lily and I – whether we did it consciously or not – took this leap and we trusted each other in a way that’s very unique; that I don’t normally do. Obviously, I’ve had good relationships with other people that I’ve worked with, but this particular relationship with Lily and Emma the character was very beautiful. It was very intimate; it was very subtle.

To me, it was the kindest expression that two characters or people can have for one another, which is this love that you can’t really label or bottle or categorize. But yet, you need it in your life, and you have no choice but to need that other person.

Tell Me Your Secrets is a different role for both of you. What drew you to the project?

Lily Rabe: I loved the ambiguity of the whole story, of all of the roles, and the restraint that Harriet [Warner] exercised in the creation of the world and relationships and characters. There’s so much held back. I love watching an unreliable narrator as a viewer, and even more than that, I love playing one.

I really had never read anyone like Emma or Karen; these two women were like playing two characters, but they have the same the same soul. There was no one I could compare her to, and I felt that way about Harriet. There was no one I could compare Harriet to.

Enrique Murciano: Yeah, I feel the same way. When I met Harriet. I fell in love with her talent. At first glance, she seems like this very cool, stylish, obviously very intelligent human being – but as you get to know her and dive deep into this world that she created, there’s a real dark side to her.

There’s a real twisted side to her, and it’s almost intoxicating and addictive in a way that made taking this role irresistible. I wanted to be a part of this at all cost because of that other side of Harriet that I don’t think many get to see. But they’re gonna get to see it. February 19 on our beautiful little show.

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What do both of you think the show says about redemption? Does anybody who seeks a second chance deserve one?

Enrique Murciano: To me, redemption is a very tricky notion, because we all want to be better and we all want that second chance – and we all want to give that second chance. But one thing is to give someone a second chance because they dinged your car in a parking lot. Another thing is to give a second chance because they mutilated your daughter and buried her somewhere very, very far away. It’s very hard to give someone a second chance when they destroyed your entire life.

This particular project pushes your pushes your head and your heart, and what you know to be right and wrong, in that direction and really makes you ask these questions that that are very hard to answer.

Lily Rabe: It’s such a wonderful question, and I think that theme is such a big part of the show: whether people are deserving of second chances and whether they’re actually possible. And I think there is no one answer, but it’s such a compelling thing to explore. Not only the question of whether one should be allowed to have a shot at it, but if it’s actually then possible to accomplish. I love how the show dives into your question. It’s such a wonderful part of what the show is demanding.

I’m fascinated by how Peter’s savior complex manifests not just in his dynamic with Emma, but also with his wife Lisa. Can you talk about the echoes of that in his personality?

Enrique Murciano: I think, in Pete’s mind – which, in many instances, is like my mind – we all want to be heroes. We all want to be saviors; we all want to be that person that, at the end of the day, changed someone’s life for the better. It’s a human trait. And at least in my world, and the way I grew up, it’s one that has echoed over and over in my real life. I do want to be that hero; I do want to be that savior. I do want to make that person’s life better.

For me, reading the role of Pete, I was like, “I want to do this.” I want to inject very truthful pieces of myself into this role, and I’m very proud of the work that not only that I did, but Lily did, and the rest of the cast did. Because I think everyone executed that in a very elegant way.

Something I enjoyed about the show is its use of flashbacks, which give that extra layer to the characters. What was it like as actors, hopping back and forth between these different points in your characters’ lives?

Lily Rabe: That was such a big part of the shoot for me, really working with the crew and the designers to figure out it, because we weren’t shooting it chronologically. I had done quite a lot of training to create the way that Emma would look after prison, where she builds this physical armor. I think that Karen has a softness – and I don’t mean in terms of her body, I really mean she’s a softer person. Her spirit are her heart are open, and Emma’s is closed.

Because we were jumping back and forth, we really worked so hard. We had a brilliant costume designer, Elizabeth Warn, and an incredible hair and makeup team, and all of the designers on the show were so detail-oriented. Because I had to go back and forth, and a number of us did, we were making sure that not only the time and the place was changing, but physically we were adding soft little bits of padding into Emma. Not to make her seem like she had more pounds on her, but she has a different quality physically.

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There was so much detail put into that, and I loved that part of it. The only thing that was hard is when we were shooting Minnesota in 103 degrees in New Orleans. That was a challenge, but a wonderful challenge.

The pilot set up Emma’s initial draw to Jess in the bathroom scene. Can you explain why was she so drawn to her in that moment?

Lily Rabe: I don’t want to give anything away, but there is something in Jess’ vulnerability that that draws Emma towards her. Which is entirely questionable. So, whether that’s for a good reason or a bad reason, I don’t want to say.

I love the phrase, “two things can be true at the same time,” and I think that is really true in this show so often. But there’s something about [Jess]; she’s a loner. Enrique was saying earlier that we loved each other so much, and it was such a wonderful group, but I found the playing of this role remarkably lonely. I wouldn’t trade it, as it was part of the process. But I think that’s part of it, too. She recognizes that quality in Jess.

The show was fairly heavy. What was it like to stay in that dark place with these characters for 10 episodes?

Enrique Murciano: It was challenging. Playing these characters day in and day out was taxing emotionally. It was a lot of heavy lifting. And I’ve never been more impressed with a contemporary, with another castmate, as I was with Lily.

Lily had these incredible costume changes. Physically, she was this person. And I remember watching her from afar at 4am on a Friday night, shooting in the middle of nowhere, and really thinking – not that she was on autopilot, but like she said earlier in an interview, she was running even past the finish line. It was incredible to watch. Her performance is a tour de force. It’s just really impressive, and I’m very amazed at how she maintained that stamina throughout the whole shoot.

Lily Rabe: Thank you. I think the relentlessness and running on fumes is such a part of it, because it’s what Emma is having to do in her own life. That was something that I just leaned into instead of away from. You do feel, when you’re coming home at 7am from a Friday night shoot that has turned Saturday one and you slept in a week, that kind of exhaustion.

Living in the in the bleak world of the show wasn’t something that I [felt]. It wasn’t until after I was done shooting that I tried to bring some light back in to counterbalance and equalize again. You just put your head down and get through it.

Did you do much outside research for the roles, or did you rely on Harriet’s writing and your own imagination?

Lily Rabe: I’m a research nerd. I love to pack a suitcase full of as much research as I can. And then in the shooting of it, some of it ends up not being something you ever unpack or take out of the suitcase, but I like having it. I’ve always been that way. I just like to go in with as much of that as I can. So, the answer for me is always yes.

And I do want to just say, when I said put my head down and get through it, I didn’t mean I wasn’t enjoying it. I loved every moment of it. But I guess I just mean I wasn’t trying to shy away from the darkness of it, as you spoke to.

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