Dakota Fanning was actually pregnant in The perfect couple?
If she is on a talk show or acting, Dakota Fanning steals every scene. She’s always worth the price of admission.
A person can act pregnant. Someone as talented as Dakota certainly can.
But no amount of acting can conjure up a convincing baby bump like this. Was she pregnant during filming? Did they write her pregnancy into the Netflix movie?
Dakota Fanning Definitely Looks Really Pregnant in ‘The Perfect Couple’
from Netflix The perfect couple is a miniseries that follows a wealthy, extravagant, and perfect New England family. The discovery of a body ruins a marriage — and makes everyone suspect.
Dakota Fanning plays Abby Winbury. She is the groom’s sister-in-law. And she is pregnant with the groom’s brother, Thomas.
When we say Dakota Fanning’s character is pregnant, we don’t mean she just found out. She’s clearly quite far along in her pregnancy, with a prominent baby bump. And no, it’s not just under her clothes.
Why The perfect couple takes place on the beach, there are several moments of people in beachwear. Dakota Fanning’s character, Abby, is no exception.
Then we see her in a bikini — not a swimsuit, not a beach dress — with her pregnant belly on display.
It seems extremely real. More than real enough to have several viewers wondering if Dakota Fanning was actually pregnant during filming. If so, it wouldn’t be the first time a project has written a pregnancy into a storyline to keep a fantastic actor in a role.
Was Dakota Fanning Really Pregnant When ‘The Perfect Couple’ Was Filmed?
Dakota Fanning, 30, was clearly not pregnant at the Emmy Awards on Saturday, September 15. But as most viewers understand, a miniseries like this is filmed well before it airs.
However, Dakota Fanning was no really pregnant.
In fact, she spoke enthusiastically about how the production created this extremely realistic illusion.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Dakota Fanning went crazy that “it was an incredible prosthesis” that created the appearance of pregnancy.
“I didn’t wear that one all the time — I had a different one that I wore underneath my clothes,” she clarified. “But there was no way she was going to wear a swimsuit in the pool. It was supposed to be a bikini and you had to see her belly.”
Dakota Fanning continued: “But we really had to do it right. It was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. And it wasn’t a collar situation, I put it on like a corset so it wrapped all the way around my body and tied in the back.”
“I was just laying there, so you never saw my back; it was so perfect from every side. It’s wild,” Dakota Fanning commented.
Knowing she looked really pregnant, she added: “People on set that day were staring at me a lot and then apologizing for staring. No one could believe it. I loved it.”
Not all visual tricks can fool people in real life as well as they can fool people watching the finished footage. Hats off to the production for creating such a convincing prosthetic! And of course, to Dakota Fanning — for pulling it off.