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At the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the series in New York City, King, 38, told PEOPLE how she quickly bonded with Gummer and FitzGerald before shooting began. "It was very easy to bond with Mamie and Caitlin," the actress admitted.
King says she was able to quickly with her co-stars over motherhood, as they all have kids. "We laughed the first day that we met at the production office [and] the next stop that we all made together to get to know each other was to go to Walmart because we had to buy summer toys for our kids."
Looking back on it, she says there's "really no [better] way to bond than going to a giant superstore with a bunch of new, amazing women." Afterward, they were "hanging out in the car and having some girl therapy for a few hours" together, which connected them even more.
- Both King and Gummer are mothers of two. King shares daughters Florence and Josephine with ex-husband Joe King, while Gummer shares son Peter and daughter Mary with her ex-husband Mehar Sethi. Meanwhile, Fitzgerald welcomed her first child with husband Aidan Turner in 2022.
- Fitzgerald says that their real-life connection helped them play around with how vicious their characters are to each other onscreen. Though the women play sisters who are most often at each other's throats rather than empathizing with each other, Fitzgerald, 41, tells PEOPLE the trio are "much nicer to each other in real life than we are on television."
Fitzgerald adds, "I think we were able to be so unkind to each other [on camera] because it felt like a really safe space. They're such great girls. We had so much fun."
When it came to playing Bess, who is keeping plenty of her own secrets over the course of the summer, King says there was a "lot of family drama to unpack." "It's a very sharp relationship," she says of her character's dynamic with her daughter Miren, played by Esther McGregor. Miren is one of the four titular "Liars," along with Cadence (Emily Alyn Lind), Johnny (Joseph Zada) and Gat (Shubham Maheshwari). "I feel like that's the only word that pops into [my head]. It's a cutting relationship."
King quips of her character, "[Bess is] always trying to kind of curate her life, and if she can curate it enough on the outside, maybe she'll find joy on the inside, which, according to therapists, is not the way to find joy."
The upcoming series takes place over the course of two years and follows Cadence (Lind) and her "tight-knit inner circle, nicknamed the Liars, during their summer escapades on her grandfather's New England private island."
The official synopsis reads, "The Sinclairs are American royalty—known for their good looks, old money, and enviable bond—but after a mysterious accident changes Cadence's life forever, everyone, including her beloved Liars, seems to have something to hide."
We Were Liars premieres Wednesday, June 18 on Prime Video.
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