Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks star as estranged sisters caught up in the course of a twisted whodunnit on their new Prime Video sequence, The Higher Sister, primarily based on the thriller e book of the identical title. On the sequence, the pair are pressured to work collectively to find who killed Biel’s on-screen husband, performed by Corey Stoll.

It is a place solely one of many two leads informed TooFab they might thrive in off-screen.

“I feel my brother and I’d fail miserably. We would be in jail instantly,” joked Biel when requested whether or not she and her real-life siblings might remedy a homicide thriller. “We’d not. No, it is like two Pisces scrambling round attempting to determine it out. We would simply be like, ‘We did it. I do not know what occurred.’ We would not fare very nicely, I do not suppose.”

“We’d have discovered anyone else accountable … there’d be no points in my household,” Banks then answered, making it sound like her siblings can be higher at overlaying up a homicide than fixing one.

“Everyone knows our roles. We play them nicely,” she continued. “I’d pay for every thing to occur. I’ve a sister who’s the organizer who would love get all of it carried out. My brother’s the massive man. He is like, he is the muscle. I’ve one other sister, who’s just like the distraction and we might have it down.”

“We’re criminals … so it helps,” she joked.

Additionally starring on the present are Bobby Naderi and Kim Dickens, the latter of whom is returning to on-screen detective work following her outing in Gone Woman. She and Naderi play companions investigating the homicide within the sequence.

“Horrible. I am horrible. I am at all times horrible at any procedural or something,” Dickens informed TooFab of her personal mystery-solving expertise. “That is definitely not a procedural, however I am similar to sort of one of the best viewers member.”

“I believed I knew, and I used to be completely mistaken each time,” added Naderi. “Till the very finish, then I figured it out.”

Getting again into her detective footwear is one thing Dickens admitted she was “a bit of involved” about at first, pondering the character could be too near the one she performed reverse Ben Affleck.

“I used to be like, ‘Oh, is it like Boney?’ However I feel she’s so totally different. She’s much less dry. She’s actually reckless and a bit of bit messy at occasions and simply enjoyable,” Dickens continued. “I imply, I liked working with Gillian Flynn and her novel, however to be again within the saddle with [showrunners] Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado, who’re my previous Deadwood comrades, it was a dream state of affairs.”

As for Lorraine Toussaint and the aforementioned Stoll — aka Biel’s lifeless on-screen husband — they, too, have been cut up in the case of their investigative skills.

“I’d be horrible,” Toussaint stated of fixing a real-life crime herself, earlier than admitting she additionally had no concept how the central thriller of the present was going to unravel till she completed studying each the script and e book.

“I used to be turning pages, going, ‘Oh my,’” she shared. “I learn the e book first as a result of, yeah, I used to be turning pages going, ‘Oh my God, oh my God,’ after which I believed I knew it.”

“I believed I knew it at the very least twice within the studying and was mistaken each occasions,” she added with fun.

Whereas Stoll thought he and his brother “could be an excellent pair” at crime-fighting, he stated he “could not guess” how The Higher Sister would finish both. “However as quickly as I knew who it was, it made whole sense and it was apparent,” he added.

See in case you can determine it out for your self when all eight episodes of The Higher Sister drop Thursday, Might 29 on Prime Video.