Eve Hewson: Bono's daughter is not yet a household name, but that could change in the coming months. Photograph: Olivia Crumm/The New York Times
“I was just like, I’m going to do this; I’m obsessed with this; this is just going to happen,” she says over lunch in Los Angeles, where she now lives. “I kind of can’t believe I did it.” In The Perfect Couple, Hewson plays Amelia Sacks, a down-to-earth Central Park zookeeper who is about to marry into a wealthy Nantucket family ruled by a matriarch named Greer Garrison Winbury , a bestselling author obsessed with maintaining her family’s pristine image. A death on the eve of the wedding threatens to disrupt the facade.
She also had to go toe to toe with Kidman, whose character considers Hewson’s Amelia to be beneath her son and a threat to the family. Bad Sisters: Sarah Greene, Anne-Marie Duff, Sharon Horgan, Eva Birthistle and Eve Hewson. Photograph: Apple TV+ Hewson thinks a lot about the symbiotic connections she has had with directors like Horgan and Bier. The occasional Soderbergh aside, whom she also reveres, she has tended to work with female film-makers – others on her wish list include Greta Gerwig and Marielle Heller.