How do you look at your mom or your son in the eyes and simultaneously activate actor mode? Somehow, this mother-son team managed to do it gracefully.

“I'm friends with my mother, and we had to be extremely passive aggressive and tense, but it was so fun and exciting to build that relationship and talk to each other how we’ve never really talked to each other," Jackson told ABC News.

Though it wasn't an easy feat for Katey to play a morally questionable mother to her real-life son, it was seemingly a fabulous experience.

“It was a challenge to leave our very close relationship at the door, and take on the extremely toxic dynamic between Stephen and his mom. Jackson shows up fully on set, ready to play, present and collaborative,” she stated. “It was beautiful.”

Nepotism aside, it's clear that talent runs in the family.

New episodes of Tell Me Lies release on Wednesdays on Hulu.