Interview of Eve Hewson on the new show Bad Sisters

The show was a real gift for Eve, although she didn’t see it as such at first. “First, I got the script the day before Christmas Eve,” she says. “And I was like, ‘I don’t want to audition. I don’t want to make a terrible strip, it’s Christmas time!’ My agent told me to read it and I hoped it was crap so I wouldn’t have to cancel my Christmas plans. I read it and was like “oh shit, this is so good!” Now I’ll have to cancel my plans, put down the Guinness and make the cassette.

What speaks to her as the “messy sister,” Becca, who is a free spirit with a penchant for a good pint and hot men? “I’ve never had an experience like this before where I was like, ‘this is me in general in a character.’ I’m definitely a lot more professional than Becca and I have more of a life together, but there’s a messiness and a wild nature to her that I definitely relate to,” replies Eve.

Landing the role just as she turned 30 also marked a coming-of-age moment for Eve, that moment where your mess hopefully subsides and an adult emerges from the wreckage of your twenties. Something I relate to. “I feel like it’s my ode to my twenties,” confirms Eve, “when you don’t have it all together, you don’t know where your life is going, you’re somewhere between childhood and adulthood, but you’re also not an adult. You are not forced to have a suitable career. You can move around and you don’t have to buy a house. This is the decade where you discover things about yourself and all of your insecurities that you have about yourself and you feel like you have no direction. You look like an adult, but you’re not. Everyone just pretends and hides it. This is also a period where you make all the wrong decisions, hang out with all the wrong people, drink too much. It was a perfect moment for me to put all my experience into one person and then step away from him, say goodbye to him in a way.

I was a certified messy bitch in my twenties, how messy was Eve I ask? “Oh, 100% messy bitch,” she bursts out laughing. “It was the most messed up decades and you couldn’t bloody pay me to come back! My thirties are a good place. This is my safe place. It was amazingly cathartic looking back and then kind of going through it. As long as they don’t bring me back through it in season two. I think I said goodbye. Maybe if we do a second season, she can get it all together for my mental health.