Tell Me Lies Season 2 slaps…literally.
During Season 2, Episode 6, “Do Your Dirty Words Come Out To Play?” your favorite Tell Me Lies group of friends, frenemies, and straight-up enemies wound up snowed in together at Evan’s house for Thanksgiving — or should we say Slapsgiving.
To cut the tension in the house, the college kids gathered in the living room against their better judgements to play Slap Shots, a drinking game that involves slapping each other and taking shots. As Unk’s “Walk It Out” played in the background, hands started flying and alcohol started flowing. As you can imagine, the game didn’t end well…
Lucy slapped Bree, Wrigley slapped Stephen, and though Stephen dared slap Leo multiple times, Lucy’s new boy didn’t take the bait. Pippa sort of slapped Diana, Diana really slapped Pippa, and Pippa slapped Stephen. The game ended when a furious Molly slapped Evan for paying too much attention to Bree, and when the shot glasses went down, Lucy slapped Diana after learning she knew about Stephen and Leo’s history and didn’t tell her.
The episode was undeniably heated, but when Decider asked the Tell Me Lies cast if the controlled violence was real or all part of the act, they assured us that no faces were harmed in the making of Slapsgiving. Except for one…
“There was a real slap in there. There was one,” Branden Cook, who plays Evan, told Decider over Zoom. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got slapped. [Evan] might have deserved it. But it was fun. It was a lot of fun to shoot. Long, but fun. It’s a game I would never play in real life.”
Though Stephen got the brunt of the slaps during the Slap Shots scene, Tell Me Lies star Jackson White said his face was spared by his fellow co-stars. “I didn’t get any real slaps. I really wanted one. I was like, ‘HIT ME.’ And then obviously everyone was like, ‘NO!’” He did, however, vividly remember Cook getting slapped. “It was awesome. But then they were like guys, ‘No! You can’t do that! So yeah, all fake! It was great…He got his ass smacked. It was so funny.”
White also said the Slap Shots scene was a blast to shoot because the cast was all together for the first time. “Everyone’s so stupid and we all love sweets, and we just sit around eating donuts and we make jokes and toss the football outside, and then we crowd into Evan’s sweaty condo and do some jokes,” he explained. “And, Ed Lilly was directing. That was awesome. He’s the best. It was so much fun. I wish it was always that big group like that.”
Decider also spoke to Tell Me Lies stars Alicia Crowder and Sonia Mena, whose characters Diana and Pippa lovingly slapped each other, so their faces were spared as well.
“We kept it really safe. All of our characters are drunk, and so we kind of got into that silly headspace. I remember just having a lot of fun… I just remember laughing with everyone and like having a really great time,” Crowder told Decider over Zoom. “I feel like it’s so rare that all of us are together. And that Thanksgiving episode — that one scene in particular — we’re all literally sitting in the same room. So this was a rare treat just be with the cast. I had a blast, honestly.”
Mena agreed, adding, “We got to shoot it in a really cool way where we figured out the sequence, and it was almost like doing a play. We were just run it through and then getting the angles on it. And also, we had been on that stage in those costumes in the dark for probably like 16 or 18 hours a day at that point for at least ten days in a row. And it was midnight at least. I think everyone was just like out of their minds.”
“I don’t know what we were doing,” Mena continued. “We were probably driving the crew insane, but we were just like, ‘We’re going for it, and we’re sorry.’”
They came, they went for it, and they conquered the Thanksgiving episode. What chaos awaits Tell Me Lies characters and fans on Season 2’s penultimate episode next week? Stay tuned!
New episodes of Tell Me Lies premiere Wednesdays on Hulu. In the mean time, be sure to check out Decider’s in-depth coverage of the show.
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