The Five Star Weekend Official Podcast
Jul 9, 2026 · 29 min · 13 segments
Chloë Sevigny joins Elin to break down episode two. Chloë shares stories from filming on Nantucket, why she loves New England, how she relates to Tatum, and what it’s like to be friends with someone…
Chloë SevignyGuest
Elin HilderbrandHost
So today, I have a watermelon margarita, which is divine, and I'm ready to answer your questions.
Hi, Ellen.
The Wandering Weavers here.
We always make it a point to bring a Nantucket basket weaving project on our trips, hence our name, The Wandering Weavers.
We love reading your books because they all seem very much like nicely woven Nantucket baskets.
Every character and plot point is nicely woven into place.
When you were writing The Five-Star Weekend, was there a thread that was more difficult to weave into the final pattern, and maybe was there a character that almost didn't make it into the basket?
And writing a novel is also a craft, and it takes a lot of sort of hits and misses for me to get it right.
One of the things that I struggled with was Gigi's humanity and making her feel like a whole person.
So I wove in her backstory in Georgia growing up with a father who's from Singapore and her mother from Georgia.
All of that came in later because I wanted Gigi to feel like a whole person, um, and not just sort of, you know, the evil other woman.
So today, I have a watermelon margarita, which is divine, and I'm ready to answer your questions.
Hi, Ellen.
The Wandering Weavers here.
We always make it a point to bring a Nantucket basket weaving project on our trips, hence our name, The Wandering Weavers.
We love reading your books because they all seem very much like nicely woven Nantucket baskets.
Every character and plot point is nicely woven into place.
When you were writing The Five-Star Weekend, was there a thread that was more difficult to weave into the final pattern, and maybe was there a character that almost didn't make it into the basket?
And writing a novel is also a craft, and it takes a lot of sort of hits and misses for me to get it right.
One of the things that I struggled with was Gigi's humanity and making her feel like a whole person.
So I wove in her backstory in Georgia growing up with a father who's from Singapore and her mother from Georgia.
All of that came in later because I wanted Gigi to feel like a whole person, um, and not just sort of, you know, the evil other woman.
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