Alexandra Daddario Couldn’t Hide Pregnancy on Mayfair Witches Set

Alexandra Daddario found it quite challenging to keep her pregnancy under wraps while filming the second season of Mayfair Witches. Though she managed to conceal it from the general public, hiding it from her costars was a different story.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly published on July 27, Daddario revealed that she experienced severe morning sickness, transforming into what she described as a “vomit monster” on set.

The series, inspired by Anne Rice’s novels, was filmed in New Orleans and Dublin. Daddario’s costars started suspecting something was up when she declined to join them for post-shoot outings.

“Alex was at home with her secret every night,” shared Ben Feldman, who plays her love interest in the show’s second season. “How she kept it a secret is beyond me.”

“One time I threw up right outside my trailer, and my best friend had to hose it down,” Daddario, 38, said, adding that she didn’t bother with breath mints before filming scenes with Feldman, 44.

“I was like, ‘I just threw up, let’s go for it,’” she laughed.

While Feldman empathized with Daddario’s situation, he also felt some sympathy was due his way. “I was the love interest who had to kiss the person who was puking,” he noted. “[She would say] ‘Let’s get this in one take because I’m gonna puke again.’”

Daddario mentioned that her queasiness actually aided her performance. Her character, Rowan, also goes through a rough patch during much of the season.

“She’s not doing great, but maybe because Alex Daddario wasn’t doing great,” she said. “It possibly added depth to my character. The second season explores her evolution as a person and delves into, ‘Now that she knows who she is, what’s going to happen next?’”

Daddario and her husband, Andrew Form, are expecting their first child together. She disclosed to Vogue earlier this month that she had experienced a previous pregnancy loss, describing it as “very, very painful.”

“It’s long and complicated, so I don’t want to be too specific,” she reflected. “Those kinds of losses and trauma are very hard to explain unless you’ve been through them. I really relate to all the women who have been through those kinds of things in a way that I didn’t understand fully before.”

She also disclosed that Feldman guessed her pregnancy when she started avoiding deli meats on the set of Mayfair Witches.

“I have wonderful costars who have kids, and everyone was very understanding about making out with a nauseous, vomiting girl,” she said.

Source: Entertainment Weekly, Vogue