Claes Bang ‘thanks’ Sharon Horgan for unfortunate Bad Sisters consequence
Bang played an abusive husband in the Apple TV+ series
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Your support makes all the difference.Bad Sisters star Claes Bang is blaming the show’s writer Sharon Horgan for a series of awkward public interactions.
Based on the Belgian series Clan and adapted by Horgan for Apple TV+, Bad Sisters stars Horgan alongside Anne Marie Duff, Eve Hewson, Sarah Greene and Eva Birthistle as Ursula.
Bang plays the loathsome deceased abusive husband John Paul, with flashbacks showing the various plots and schemes that led to his death, along with the final reveal of how he really died.
The Danish star, who has also played Dracula, now claims that he is sometimes accosted in the street by fans of the show, who often call him a “p***k”, a nickname that the sisters in the show refer to him as.
Speaking to The Guardian, Bang said: “People say: ‘Oh, it’s the p***k.’ It happened two weeks ago in New Zealand. It happened last summer in Copenhagen at a music festival. Someone came running after me and said: ‘Hey, you’re the p***k, aren’t you?’
Bang has attributed this phenomenon to Horgan, who co-wrote the show with Dave Finkel and Brett Baer. “Thanks, Sharon Horgan,” he added. “I have a hard time saying yes to that question. Maybe I should say: ‘No, I’m Dracula,’ bring out the fangs and scare them off instead.”
*Spoilers follow*
Season two of the show aired in 2024 and begins two years after the events of the first season, with the second episode ending with the death of Grace.
Horgan explained in a new interview that the idea for Grace’s death was rejected at first for being too dark, but it felt right for the character.
“We had the idea about what would happen but then we dropped it, because we thought, ‘I don’t know if we can continue the tone of Bad Sisters with Grace dying.’ It felt too dark,” Horgan told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Then we ended up going back to it because we couldn’t really see a world where all five sisters would just be on this kind of paper – the whole first season was about protecting her. Then to lose her and to want to get to the bottom of what happened, and for there to be so much to be unveiled and revealed along the way felt like there was so much to play with.
“It felt real. It felt true to the situation that she was in. And, how do you get back from that if you’re a character like Grace, so raw and exposed? It felt like a brutal thing to do, but it felt right for the story.”
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