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Meghann Fahy’s been thriving on screen for quite some time now. She was in over 80 episodes of One Life to Live as Hannah O’Connor and starred in the hit Freeform series The Bold Type which ran for five seasons. But, there’s no denying that The White Lotus was a different kind of game-changer. Not only did Mike White’s HBO series continue to be a pop culture sensation in its second season, but the quality of the new episodes earned nine members of the ensemble Emmy nominations, including Fahy.
Since that Emmy nomination? Fahy’s downright soaring. She had a role in the 2024 genre mash-up gem Your Monster starring a Collider Ladies Night favorite, Melissa Barrera. She was in The Perfect Couple with Nicole Kidman, she was in Rebuilding with Josh O’Connor which earned high praise at Sundance, and is also in Molly Smith Metzler’s highly anticipated Netflix series Sirens with Julianne Moore and Milly Alcock. All very exciting achievements, but there’s something extra special about the movie Fahy has hitting theaters on April 11. Christopher Landon’s Drop marks the very first time Fahy is #1 on the call sheet for a feature film.
She headlines as Violent, a widowed mother reluctantly going on her first date in years. While dining in an upscale restaurant with her dating app match, Brandon Sklenar’s Henry, Violet starts getting a string of unusual and alarming anonymous drops to her phone. Is it her date? Is it another diner? Or perhaps it’s an employee at the restaurant. Violet doesn’t know and she’ll have to figure it out on her own because the assailant is watching and they insist she tell no one - or else.
Drop rocks a sharp script and the much-needed skilled mind and eye to execute it in Landon, but the success of the film heavily depends on Fahy’s ability to deftly navigate the production challenges that come with such a concept while also ensuring the viewer can feel the threat Violet’s under, and she excels tackling both - big time. While celebrating Drop’s World Premiere screening at SXSW, Fahy visited the Collider Media Studio at the Cinema Center for a Collider Ladies Night interview to go back to the beginning and recap her journey to landing at the top of the call sheet.
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