Since her star-making turn in The White Lotus, actress Meghann Fahy has been booked and busy: This month, she stars in the drama Rebuilding, as the ex-wife of a cowboy whose ranch burned down in a wildfire. Unsurprisingly, her packed agenda requires catching up on sleep wherever she can. But if you see her resting on an airplane, kindly avert your eyes. “I famously am always sleeping with my mouth open if I’m in a seat that doesn’t go all the way back. My boyfriend has so many videos of me, just teed up,” she says. “If it’s a night flight, I love to get on the plane, watch a little movie, eat some dinner, have a glass of wine, and then lights out.”
Fahy chatted with Condé Nast Traveler about the experience of making Rebuilding below Colorado’s wide open skies, why her work schedule requires 24-hour room service, and the movie she loves watching in-flight just before she drifts off.
On the filming location for Rebuilding:
It was Alamosa, Colorado, which I had never been to before. Colorado generally is a state that I’ve not spent a lot of time in, and it’s a totally different world than what I’m used to—I grew up in a really small town in Massachusetts—and it was amazing. Just driving down one of those really long, really straight roads and seeing that much sky, with the radio on, continues to be one of my favorite parts of having been there. And the sunsets were absolutely incredible.
Her coolest filming location to date:
Sicily [for The White Lotus] definitely takes the cake. It’ll be really hard to beat that. We traveled around a bit while we were filming and bopped from town to town, so we got to see a fair amount of Sicily, which was wonderful. Then we actually finished the shoot in Rome. It was just one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. There’s still so much of Italy that I haven’t been to that I’m excited to explore. I love the culture, I love the people, I love the food. I just have no notes on Italy.
Her approach to packing:
I’m sort of a chronic under-packer, because I get really overwhelmed when I’m doing it. So what I do to soothe myself is just say, “Don’t worry about it! If you forget anything, you can just get things as you need them.” But I have recently gotten into packing cubes. Honestly, it makes such a huge difference, not even in terms of space necessarily, but just knowing where everything is. I’m leaving on Monday to go to England to do a film, and I’m going to be there for a couple of months, so I’m going to have three big trunks. When you have that much luggage, it’s really hard to know where all your stuff is, and it becomes frustrating to be going through your bag all the time trying to find one thing. The packing cubes are really helpful with that organizational component.
