Sometimes the mundane, the mundane, the mundane is scarier than an arsenal of chainsaws and axes. A handful of outstanding performances this fall turn what on the surface seems like a psychological drama into something truly terrifying. We asked the actors of “Speak No Evil” (coming Friday), “Smile” (September 30) and “Nanny” (November 23) to discuss their makeovers.
Feja Van Hught “Speak No Evil”
“I think everyone had the same experience,” said Fedja van Huet in a video call from his home in Utrecht, Netherlands. He described that universal eerie feeling when someone either fails to read a clue or chooses to ignore it and gets a little too close. And I was like, ‘Why am I feeling so bad?
I step over a lot.”speak no evilChristian Tufdorp dissecting social conventions in a horrifying way, and Van Huet as an electrifying Dutch tourist in Italy with his wife Karin (Van Huet’s real-life wife Karina Smulders). Starring as Patrick, he seduces a not-too-polite Danish couple. , Bjorn (Morton Briand) and Louise (Sidsel Shem Koch) ride to hell.
When he first met Patrick, the Tuscan sun seemed to rise and set, and Bjorn was captivated by his easy magnetism.
However, when Patrick and Karin invite a Danish couple and their daughter to Holland, Louise becomes uneasy and Bjorn is seduced. After all, what’s the worst that could happen?
That’s when the swell starts.
Patrick provokes the well-mannered Danish who left but returned, even though every cell of Louise’s body is screaming “Run!” Karin has a peculiarly taciturn son.
“Speak No Evil” is the first horror film for Van Hue, who was still in drama school when he starred in 1998’s Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film, Character. He is currently filming his Amazon series based on young adult novels. That he’s the bad guy is all he reveals.
“I am one of the common suspects in Holland. Yet he and his Tafdrup had never collaborated before. “Because we don’t know each other, we don’t have any thoughts before. So it’s fresh. It’s funny.”
The night before he auditioned for Patrick, Van Huwe read the script and realized that “Speak No Evil” was more than just a psychodrama.
“Actually, I was a little upset,” he said with a laugh.
And he sometimes had the urge to be ominous in his eyes—he raised his eyebrows just a little bit, changing from a trusty face to a less so—Smulders had other thoughts. was.
“She was like, ‘Don’t give up, don’t give up.’ Just be kind. Just be friendly,” recalls Van Heute. “It’s scary enough.”
Sosie Bacon “Smile”
Sosie Bacon wanted to do a horror movie, but it wasn’t just a horror movie.
“I wanted to do what was good and what was right,” she said in a video call from her home base in Los Angeles.
she found it “smile,” Parker Finn explores childhood trauma in a scary clown wrap.
Psychiatric therapist Dr. Rose Cotter says Bacon is sophisticated and very self-assured, as work numbs the debilitating inner pain and atones for her past mistakes.
The patient then begins screaming about the unseen figure before slashing his own face with a devilish grin. And Rose’s mask begins to crumble.
“I devour humans and their minds and their cures, so I was very drawn to the psychological aspect of it,” said Bacon, 30.
And sometimes about it. That tic where Rose devours the cuticle harder and harder?
“I also pinched my finger and it bled a lot, so it wasn’t too difficult to get there,” she said.
Bacon lived with his parents Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick when he filmed “Smile” on the East Coast.
“My dad has been in a ton of horror movies, and after the movie was over he was like, ‘Oh, it sucks. The worst thing is that you have to be scared in so many different ways,'” she said. “I was like, ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ And he was like, ‘I just didn’t want to screw it up.'”
Sosie Bacon told HBO’s “east town sea‘ to the offer of her first lead, Rose. “I could make something out of it and there were many levels to it,” she said. “I think it showed people what I could really do.”
Now I’m aiming for something light like a buddy comedy. But the next time she steps into darkness, she’ll be prepared with her affirmations and reminders to calm her down.
“All I can say to people who watch horror movies is that it’s not all fun.”
Anna Diop “Nanny”
“That was the easiest ‘yes’ I’ve ever come across. “Nanny” “I’ve known her all my life.”
Aisha is focused on saving money to take her young son to New York, albeit at her own expense. Diop’s mother brought her family to the United States when Diop was five years old.
“My mother’s story is in many ways indistinguishable from Ayesha’s because there are so many similarities in my personal life,” Diop, 34, said in a video call.
It’s probably indistinguishable, save for an inexplicable crack that soon sweeps Aisha into a wave of madness.
Diop in Toronto to shoot season 4 of HBO Max “Titans” Cory Anders, aka the superhero Starfire, prepared for “Nanny” by color-coding every scene on a giant corkboard so you could follow the rise of the pervasive terror.
“But other than that, I approached it as a human story,” she said, noting that she tried to ground Aisha by working from a logical place.
“It’s a woman who is a mother who loves her child and is determined to do this particular thing,” she added. Physical disability is all I really need my focus on.”
Still, the day the movie ended, Diop sobbed back at his apartment.
“Aisha said throughout the story, and many female immigrants can relate to this, you need to get what you need done regardless of what other fears and ordeals are happening to you. “I felt like I was just putting it together because of that,” she said.