The cast of “No Good Deed” reflects contrasting motivations for house hunting

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 (UPI) — Linda Cardellini, Luke Wilson, Teyonah Parris and their co-stars introduced their new series Not a good deedon Netflix on Thursday, looks at how buying and selling a home reveals hidden motivations.

In the series, Paul and Lydia Morgan (Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow) put their Los Feliz home on the market. Several couples compete to own their own home.

“The house represents something completely different to the people who live there than it does to the people who want to buy it,” Cardellini, 49, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.

Cardellini and Wilson play Margo Sterling and JD Campbell, a Hollywood couple who already live near the Morgans. Cardellini said the Sterling-Campbell home was a metaphor for her marital problems.

“Our house in the show represents this vacant, larger-than-life dream that is unattainable and unaffordable,” she said.

Parris and OT Fagbenle play Carla Owens and Dennis Sampson, expectant parents looking for a place to raise a family.

“In this show you see that house hunting can really bring out the worst in people,” said 43-year-old Fagbenle. “Things get pretty dark on this show.”

Carla and Dennis began dating months before the series began, but because she became pregnant, they ended their relationship. Parris, 37, said her characters bring their own problems onto the house.

“They literally fill the house with all their dreams,” Parris said. “If we had this home, we could be better people, we would be a better family.”

Abbi Jacobson, 40, and Poppy Liu, 32, play a same-sex couple with relationship problems, the causes of which will be revealed in subsequent episodes. Although there is a dramatic backstory, Jacobson said her intense pursuit of the Morgan home was comical.

“My character advocates for this house,” Jacobson said. “She’ll do anything, so that was really fun to play.”

The house hunting drama reminded Wilson of his past. When he began his career in Hollywood, he lived with his brother, actor Owen Wilson.

Owen eventually needed his own place and urged Luke to move out. Luke admitted that even after completing a purchase, he was still a little hesitant.

“I still didn’t move out until Owen finally said, ‘I thought you bought a house. When are you going to move out?'” said Wilson, 53. “Then I actually moved out, and sure enough, about a year later, the guy said he missed me.

Wilson’s character did not have the success that the real actor had as a leading man Old school And Legally blonde. As an actor, Wilson said he enjoyed playing JD, a disgraced soap opera star.

“I can certainly draw on things that I’ve been through and that I’ve seen other people do on set,” Wilson said. “The idea of ​​a failed, unemployed soap opera star, you just read that sentence and I think, OK, that seems very funny.”

Margo is still used to the lifestyle and clothing of a successful Hollywood couple

Designer fashion proves it. Cardellini worked with costume designer Trayce Field to realize Margo’s script description.

“One of the things I remember reading it is, ‘She’s dripping in Gucci,'” Cardellini said. “She’s full of designer clothes and her handbag means so much to her.”

Cast member and series creator Liz Feldman also said their home-buying experiences reflected the competitive nature of the properties featured Not a good deed.

Jacobson recalled that he was competing with 16 other buyers for a home and Parris had friends who were among the 50 potential home buyers. Parris said checking real estate listings alone is good research Not a good deed.

“You scroll through the apps and just look at the houses and the prices,” Parris said. “With a $1 million or $2 million house, if you’re just judging, you think, ‘This could do better’.”

The couples also become embroiled in a secret with the Morgans. In each episode, the viewer learns more about why the Morgans really want to move out.

Feldman, 47, said the solution to that mystery changed when she began co-writing the series with her writers.

“The finale changed quite a bit,” Feldman said. “I just want to say that the crucial evidence revealed in the finale was not the original intent of my first pitch.”