Brittany Snow grew a tight bond with her The Hunting Wives costar Malin Akerman over food and a cocktail.
Any time they’d have to film the show’s more intense scenes, the actress, 39, says she and Akerman, 47, had “this tradition that was really cute” of hitting one specific local Charlotte, N.C., restaurant afterward.
“We would get these huge turkey sandwiches that were the size of our faces, and we would each have a turkey sandwich and a margarita and just laugh and debrief about the day,” Snow tells PEOPLE. “A couple of times we even took our lines to try to memorize them while we were eating, which didn’t always work out.”
Snow says it was “very helpful” to have moments to relax and “tap out” with a friend during filming.
Snow says she and Akerman “really enjoyed working together” on this project and “became really good friends.”
“It was so helpful to be able to feel comfortable and safe with someone on and off set, and that really added to our chemistry and to our dynamic,” she says. “I think that shows onscreen.”
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Malin Akerman and Brittany Snow in ‘The Hunting Wives’
The Hunting Wives (streaming on Netflix now) is based on the May Cobb book of the same name.
In the show, Snow plays Sophie, a woman who moves from the East Coast to East Texas with her husband, Graham (Evan Jonigkeit).
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Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman in ‘The Hunting Wives’
While in Texas, Sophie crosses paths with a group of friends called “the Hunting Wives” led by Akerman’s Margo, the wife of Graham’s boss, Jed (Dermot Mulroney). Sophie soon becomes entranced with Margo and unwittingly gets involved in a murder investigation.
“I read the scripts of all eight episodes within a couple hours,” Snow says. “I was completely hooked. I was desperate to find out what was going to happen.”
Snow says she was drawn to Sophie and “the transformational arc she had.”
“I think that was really intriguing to me, to play someone who ran the gamut from being a fish out of water and curious to, by the end, a total badass within herself and what she’s discovered,” she says.
The Hunting Wives is streaming now on Netflix.
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