Meryl Streep inOnly Murders in the Buildingseason 3.Photo:Patrick Harbron/Hulu
Patrick Harbron/Hulu
Meryl Streep’s appearance inOnly Murders in the Buildingopened up a basket of Easter eggs.
The show’s production designer Rich Murray revealed in an interview withVarietythat he wanted to add in several nods from the award-winning actress’s long career throughout the apartment of her scatterbrained character, Loretta Durkin — who’s also an actress (albeit a much less successful one).
Murray told the outlet he had only gotten a single brief from showrunner John Hoffman describing the character as a “charming and warm” woman who “has lived in the same studio apartment" in New York City for close to four decades — so he said he decided to “attack with all the Easter eggs and inside jokes you could find.”
This included adding in several quirky — and somewhat obvious — details into herAmerican in Paris-inspired apartment, including a wholeKramer vs. Kramerbulletin board on Loretta’s refrigerator which Murray said “closely mimics" the one “over her son Billy Kramer’s bed in the film.”
“And there’s aChristmascard from her character to Billy. So we recreated that card and hung the images around it,” he added.
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Meryl Streep and Martin Short inOnly Murders in the Buildingseason 3.Patrick Harbron/Hulu
There are also some more subtle details, including aDevil Wears Prada-inspired bookcase, which Murray said contained “the logo of the film” across the book spines.
Additionally, there is an ottoman covered in a burlap fabric with a Kenyan coffee design — a nod to Streep’sOut of Africacharacter Karen Blixen, who “lived on a coffee plantation.”
There are also small pieces like a framed hanging tea towel with the name “Emmeline Pankhurst,” her character’s name in 2015’sSuffragette,and a vase full of tulips on Loretta’s desk — a reference toJulie & Julia(2009), when Streep andStanley Tucci’s characters have dinner in the movie.
“They’re in a booth and there is a gorgeous arrangement of French tulips that looked like they had been moved a couple of times. It was this gargantuan arrangement,” Murray toldVariety. “So I always put an arrangement of French tulips on her desk, and they were weirdly arranged like in the film.”
Meryl Streep inOnly Murders in the Buildingseason 3.HULU
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He said he also added in various scripts from movies and plays Streep has been in throughout the years on a desk in Loretta’s apartment.
“It has a lot of built-in quirkiness with drop-down, pull-down things,” Murray said of Loretta’s apartment. “Everyone has everything so neatly finessed, tucked in and tightened cornered, and so we sort of pull from that.”
New episodes ofOnly Murders in the Buildingseason 3 air Tuesdays on Hulu.
source: people.com
