How Elle Fanning Adapted Margo’s Got Money Troubles With a Few Key Changes

But in the show, as in the book, Margo is moved by Shyanne’s retelling of her birth story and subsequently unplanned foray into single motherhood. “I don’t want him,” Margo tells her mother about the baby’s father, Mark, in the series. “But for whatever reason, I want this baby. I want it more than I’ve ever wanted anything.”

Let’s Get Prosthetic

Another necessary nip and tuck in the adaptation? The pair of prosthetic breasts Fanning wears as Margo, designed by Jason Collins, the special effects designer and prosthetics lead for Pam & Tommy (2022). “I needed bigger boobs, so I had these fake, prosthetic tits,” Fanning told VF last year. “I am friends with Margaret Qualley—she wore them in The Substance. I liked it,” she added. “It’s fun to squeeze them.”

Although Fanning shares that Pfeiffer wore bogus teeth for her role as Shyanne, she declined further enhancement. “They wanted to do prosthetic boobs on me in the beginning. And I was fine with that until I heard how long it was going to take to put them on and take them off. And I’ve done a lot of prosthetics, so I know,” Pfeiffer previously told VF. “I thought, Surely there’s a way to work with the little bit that I have and then just create an illusion, which we were able to do. Maybe they weren’t as enormous as they could have been,” she laughs, “but I think they were sufficient.”

Margo’s OnlyFans Origins

Now, onto the main event: What, exactly, drives Margo to OnlyFans? In both the book and series, the struggling newborn mother is fired from her restaurant job and loses two roommates, which jacks up her monthly rent payment. She receives financial aid from Mark’s mother, Elizabeth (Marcia Gay Harden), in the form of a trust fund for baby Bodhi, but seeks a short-term cashflow solution.

Enter dear aged dad, who in the third episode tells Margo about Arabella, a fictional pro-athlete who left the WWE for OnlyFans, where she made more in a month making NSFW content than she did in a year of professional wrestling. Book Margo receives a $15,000 down payment from Mark’s mother, meaning she grapples a bit longer with her decision to join the app than the more financially unstable show Margo. But both versions of the character come to the same conclusion: They’ll start creating OnlyFans content under the name HungryGhost—in reference to a poem Mark wrote to her during their affair.