How Alexandra Daddario tried — and failed — to hide her pregnancy from “Mayfair Witches” costars: ‘Everyone else was partying’
"I was the love interest who had to kiss the person who was puking," Ben Feldman quipped to Entertainment Weekly.
Even though she plays a witch on television, Alexandra Daddario wasn't able to work her magic to contain her big secret while filming season 2 of Mayfair Witches.
Daddario, who publicly announced her pregnancy earlier this month, was determined to keep her news to herself — but morning sickness got the better of her. The cast first noticed something was up when they were out partying in New Orleans and Dublin, where they filmed season 2, and Daddario stayed home.
"Alex had a giant secret," Ben Feldman, who joins season 2 as Daddario's love interest, told Entertainment Weekly while visiting our Comic-Con 2024 studio. "Alex was at home with her secret every night."
But eventually, she started vomiting all the time while they were filming. "She would say excuse me for a minute, and she'd walk off set and [mimes vomiting]," reveals Harry Hamlin, as Feldman added, "Which is so cool when you're the love interest."
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Alexandra Daddario on 'Mayfair Witches'Alyssa Jirrels, who is also new to season 2, was impressed by Daddario's relative calm given the situation. "I watched her throw up a thousand times, and she always did it so gracefully," Jirrels says.
Daddario describes her pathetic attempts to keep the pregnancy under wraps. "One time I threw up right outside my trailer, and my best friend had to hose it down," she says. "I was like, 'Can someone get me a sandwich please? And no cold cuts please?' Ben was like, 'Are you pregnant? And I’m like, 'That’s none of your business, and by the way, get me some watermelon.'"
Feldman interjects, "Can I tell you what you said Alex? You said, [adopting a pathetic voice], 'I don’t know.' How that was kept a secret is stunning to me."
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To be fair, Feldman was the one who had to take the brunt of Daddario's morning sickness given his status as her on-screen lover. "I was the love interest who had to kiss the person who was puking," he explains.
"The vomit monster," adds Daddario, before joking that they didn't bother with mints or breath freshener. "I was like, 'I just threw up, let’s go for it.'"
"'Let's see if you can get this in one angle because I'm gonna puke again,'" Feldman teases, imitating Daddario.
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The cast filmed season 2 earlier this year, but there isn't a premiere date set yet. Now that Daddario's Rowan Fielding knows the truth of her family's past, she must go further to embrace her power — and that isn't easy. A fact which Daddario says her malaise actually helped portray.
"She’s not doing great, but maybe because Alex Daddario wasn’t doing great," she says. "So maybe I brought that to my character. The second season shows us her evolution as a person and dives into, 'Now that she knows who she is, what’s gonna happen?'"
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