Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks ‘Mother Vibed’ Over Being Boy Mothers on ‘The Higher Sister’ Set (Unique)

Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks hadn’t labored collectively earlier than The Better Sister, however the chemistry got here simply between them.

It was virtually “bizarre,” Banks, 51, tells PEOPLE of how shortly she and Biel, 43, clicked. “[It] actually simply got here naturally.”

There are plenty of similarities between the actresses, as Banks notes, each onscreen and off. “We work actually equally, which is that we do plenty of preparation. We convey plenty of character work to every scene, however on the finish of the day, we’re simply actually open to one another and what is going on to occur within the second, and so all of that was actually seamless.”

She says they’re additionally “each siblings” and “each boy mothers,” including, “We had commonalities and we additionally wished to make a very nice present.”

Biel echoes her costar’s ideas. “I imply, there was nothing anybody ever stated that was a unfavourable remark about Elizabeth. Simply enjoyable, sensible, does every thing, so past unimaginable, humorous, all of the issues that everyone is aware of about her from her work, all is in fact true, however the different issues just like the nuance-y issues that [I] did not know,” she says.

Once more, the shared expertise of being a mother of two boys — Biel shares sons Silas, 10, and Phineas, 4, with husband Justin Timberlake, and Banks is mom to Felix, 14, and Magnus, 12, with husband Max Handelman — comes up.

“We did have so many commonalities that, ‘Oh my God, she has two boys? Wow. And so they’re little older than my boys.’ So we simply mother vibed instantly,” Biel says. “It was type of simply, ‘Oh, we might be buddies — if we have been on the similar college, we’d be buddies.’”

Other than bonding over mother life, Banks says that the actresses “actually received to know one another by means of doing this collectively” as they “didn’t know one another nicely” going into it.

“I had solely ever heard the loveliest issues [about Biel],” Banks says. “She fully lived as much as that fame of simply being sort and beneficiant and gifted and exquisite and enjoyable and simple, and all of it labored out.”

“I really like her,” Biel says after listening to her costar rave about her.

In The Higher Sister, Biel and Banks play estranged sisters Chloe (Biel) and Nicky (Banks), who’re introduced again collectively after Chloe’s husband Adam (Corey Stoll) is brutally murdered — and his teenage son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan), who was raised by Chloe and Adam however who is definitely Nicky’s son, is the prime suspect.

The eight-episode collection, which premieres Might 29 on Prime Video, is “in regards to the horrible issues that drive sisters aside and finally convey them again collectively,” per the official logline.

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The Higher Sister premieres Might 29 on Prime Video.