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Elle Fanning plays a young mom who turns to OnlyFans to provide for her baby in Margo’s Got Money Troubles
The role required quite a bit of nudity, with Fanning telling PEOPLE why that wasn’t a challenge
The actress says she’s “really proud of how the nudity is depicted on the show, because it’s not in an overly sexualized way at all”
Elle Fanning knew there was going to be some nudity required to play a new mom posting on OnlyFans in Margo’s Got Money Troubles, but she wasn’t deterred.
Fanning, 28, leads the new Apple TV series adapted from Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling novel as the titular character, who is navigating the challenges of being a young mom struggling financially. Margo also juggles the chaotic lives of her parents, former Hooter’s waitress, Shyanne (Michelle Pfeiffer), and ex-pro wrestler, Jinx (Nick Offerman).
The nudity was the least of Fanning’s concerns, she says. “I feel like I kind of broke that down in The Great. I was like, ‘I’ve kind of already done this,'” she tells PEOPLE, referring to her three-season run as Catherine the Great in the hit Hulu satire.
It helps, too, that she’s “someone that’s not very modest when it comes to those things,” she shares.
Elle Fanning in ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’
Credit: Apple TV
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Fanning also had lengthy conversations with showrunner David E. Kelley about the subject, sharing that she’s “really proud of how the nudity is depicted on the show, because it’s not in an overly sexualized way at all.”
“A lot of it is actually just having to do with the necessities of motherhood, the need to feed your child and breastfeed. And then that’s kind of juxtaposed, later, when Margo’s doing her OnlyFans,” Fanning says. “But I think it’s a nice commentary of how her relationship to her body changes.”
The actress liked that nudity was “never the focal point of the scene,” which she says “made it really interesting.”
There were also the logistics of making it all work. “A lot of the time, I did have prosthetics to make [my boobs] look like breastfeeding boobs and milk that would squirt out this contraption that they had,” Fanning says. “So I would be in the trailer and they’d put them on, and then I would feel like, ‘OK, I’m just going to walk out.’ And I’m like, ‘Wait a second, I can’t walk out. This isn’t a shirt.'”
Elle Fanning and Michael Angarano in ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’
Credit: Apple TV
At the show’s premiere at SXSW Film & TV Festival in March, Fanning told PEOPLE that she relied on real-life moms on set to make sure she nailed her performance. “Motherhood is such a big theme of the show, and I’m not a mother myself, but we had many mothers on set who I could always ask for advice, like, ‘Well, does this look real?'” she said at the time.
The series as a whole “really feels like a slice of life,” she added.
“It’s so heartwarming, but also there’s a lot of dramatic and tragic bits. The way Margo handles them is with such optimism… I loved seeing her find her agency and resilience throughout the show and getting to build upon that.”
The first three episodes of Margo’s Got Money Troubles are now streaming on Apple TV, and new episodes arrive on Wednesdays.
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