SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Season 1 finale of Laid
Stacked with a talented list of guest stars that includes Finneas O’Connell, Simu Liu and Chloe Fineman, Peacock‘s Laid saves the biggest shock for last.
Zosia Mamet recently opened up about her top-secret finale scene with Amanda Knox in the dark romantic comedy series, now streaming on Peacock, noting that caution was taken out of “respect” to her privacy.
“We kept the set very small that night because we didn’t want any spoilers and wanted to respect Amanda’s privacy,” Mamet told IndieWire. “It wasn’t dissimilar to the scene that we shot. She’s wonderful and so kind and so smart and so open about her experience. She’s a force. She’s one of the strongest people I’ve ever met.”
Knox also raved about her scene with Mamet. “It was fun to take a break from courtroom drama to cameo in this TV comedy and do a scene with @zosiamamet,” she wrote on Instagram.
Developed by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna from the 2011 Australian series, Laid stars Stephanie Hsu as Ruby Yao, a 33-year-old single woman who discovers that all her past sex partners are dying in the order in which she slept with them.
Zosia Mamet and Amanda Knox in Peacock’s ‘Laid’
Mamet plays Ruby’s best friend AJ, who dives into her friend’s mystery after years of devouring true-crime podcasts. The character frequently raves about Knox, who spent nearly four years in prison after being wrongly convicted for the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy.
When Ruby sleeps with AJ’s on-and-off boyfriend, blowing up their friendship in the process, she arranges a surprise dinner with AJ and her hero as the ultimate grand gesture.
Mamet previously explained to Deadline that Ruby’s friendship with AJ takes on a more vital role than the romantic relationships on the show.
“I think female friendship, especially as you get older, it serves a very different purpose than a romantic relationship does, and I think sometimes they can be so much more entrenched, specifically, if you’ve been friends with that person for many, many years, and in so many ways, can actually feel way deeper,” she said. “I think when those relationships are threatened in any way, it feels really, really scary. The journey that AJ and Ruby go on is a very real one. I think people often don’t talk about how, as you get older, sometimes horrible things happen, but also sometimes people just grow apart. It’s really, horribly sad and awful. Keeping those friendships intact and sort of holding them in a precious, delicate way is really important.”
