For movie titles, There’s Something Wrong with the Children is literal and self-explanatory. Something is wrong with the children, but what? Why are the kids acting so strange? What starts as a weekend trip between friends eventually turns into a nightmare thanks to the children in the latest horror movie from Blumhouse.
This movie definitely gets under your skin. What else about the script attracted you to take on this character of Margaret? And I think we were lucky that way because you’re right, shooting during COVID doesn’t leave a lot of opportunity for extra rehearsal time and things like that, so we all jump right in. But like I said, once we started shooting, it became clear that the material just made it easy for us to look like we had that sort of relationship that you see on film.
Benjamin: We did. Our casting department looked at around 600 kids, and then we saw, I want to say, maybe like 100 of those auditions at some point. It was a very lengthy process throughout our prep, trying to find these kids and then doing callbacks. Sitting down and talking to them, you kind of want to see their confidence level and how they do in different scenarios and with different scenes and everything.
There’s a level of concession you can make for kids, but these little ones were so professional. They had really beautiful, kind parents who were there on set with them. I think at the end of the day, you just want these kids to feel safe and also responsible, to take some responsibility for their role. Then you just let them do the work. They’re not my responsibility. I just have to come on set and play with them, so if everything is aligned, then that’s an easy thing to do.
But yeah, the drama of it is really what drew me to it. One of the big pushes I made [was] to change the name to There’s Something Wrong with the Children because I’m a big fan of Giallo titles in general and titles that are full sentences I just think [they] are funny. If you’re a horror fan, it tells you what kind of movie you’re getting into. Not that this is a Giallo, but it tells you the kind of movie you’re getting into.
Wainwright: If you know a little bit about shooting, the more people you have in a scene, the longer it takes to shoot, especially if you’re directing dialogue to a bunch of different characters. That scene took a really long time to shoot, and I think initially, we were just so tapped in and like really living in the moment. And then I want to say like the last hour, we could not stop laughing. I don’t even remember what it was.
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