- Hi, my name is William Chris Sumpter
and I play Spencer Haywood.
- Hiya, my name is Annarah Cymone and I play Sandra.
- Hi, my name's Aya Furukawa and I play Natsuki.
- I'm Ruth Codd and I play Anya.
- Hi, I'm Sauriyan Sapkota and I play Amesh.
- Hi, I'm Iman Benson and I play Ilonka.
- I'm Igby Rigney and I play Kevin.
- And I am Adia and I play Cheri Ian.
And we are the cast of "The Midnight Club."
- And we're here with Buzzfeed
to answer your burning questions.
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- [All] Spoiler alert.
- If you haven't finished the season,
please don't watch this video.
Come back to it when you have.
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- Ooh. - That's tough.
- Hard question. - There was a day
I remember when somebody came off set
and told us to shut up.
(all laughing) - Uno or something.
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- That was great. - And we were all
yelling at him. - When I would play
Uno with Chris-- (overlapping chattering)
- I was just gonna say spending every day with these guys.
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- Mike is so generous as, you know,
a director, writer, and everything.
I think he put a lot of care and time
into each and every one of us.
- It all feels very like collaborative too.
- Yeah, exactly. - Which is really,
really nice. - Yeah.
- And he's really patient.
Like, I love how patient he is
'cause like this is my first time on a set at all,
so I didn't know anything and it was really cool
to have him walk us through everything and he was like,
"You ask all the questions you want and it's okay.
"Like I will help you."
And I was like, "Okay, great.
"I don't feel like an idiot now."
(all laughing)
- I think none of the episodes are predictable.
That's what's so good about Mike's writing.
And you think you know where it's going
and then you read an episode and you're like,
well, I was way off, I was way off.
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- Yeah, I mean it was really cool.
Everyone was a lot younger.
I mean we're all the same age, so that was cool.
It was very loud on set all the time
and it was very energetic.
But it was cool just to come back 'cause Igby was there
and Sam and Zach and it was like coming back to school
after going to summer camp or something, yeah.
- And we got to share some of the same crew as well.
- Oh, yeah, that was really cool.
- So we knew all the makeup people and everybody.
Very comfortable environment. - Yes.
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- Well I've been a big fan of his for so long.
I started watching him with "iZombie."
Oh my gosh and just getting to meet him is just so great.
My character in my episode is like awestruck
to meet that character and it was,
it was easy to play that 'cause I myself
was like I get to like play with Rahul
and he was like, "All right, mate."
And I'm like, (all laughing)
I'm Rahul's mate. (all laughing)
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- Sam's amazing.
I mean she really brought Julia's character to life
and can I say, is it Julia?
No, no, it's Shasta.
It's Shasta, it's not Julia!
I learned so much from her as well and as well as Matt,
I think Matt was in "Midnight Mass" too.
It's great, I mean,
he's the best father figure on and off set too.
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- I think my favorite was me and Chris
got to do the black and white. - Yeah.
- And that was so cool
'cause we did, everything we tried to do to the cadence
of how those no films were as well
and we got to rehearse so much together.
So it was really, really fun.
- Yeah, for that episode, Annarah was just painted gray.
While she was bleeding out on the floor
giving a killer monologue and, surprisingly,
I didn't notice at all, I was like,
wow, I'm in it right now. - Yes
Your tears were just, they were just falling on my face.
Waterboard. - That was great, yeah.
- I got to be in ballerina
which is not a sentence that I ever thought I'd say
'cause I have no natural grace at all.
So that does show the power of movie magic.
- Yeah, no, I totally feel the same
about the movie magic thing
because my episode in episode eight was all just me driving.
I don't know how to drive.
I've never driven a car in my life
and I actually have a fear of driving.
So, during the entire shoot I was nervously
kind of acting and doing my thing going,
I hope I don't look like I'm just.
(all laughing) - Just turning.
- The set pieces and the costumes
and the hair and makeup that we got to play with
was really fun for me too.
I just, for my episode, episode five,
they blocked off the entire street
and they made like a video game store
with vintage video game pieces
and it was just so crazy to see
'cause I'd never see that in actual real life today.
- They're not vintage.
I had a Sega Mega Drive when I was a kid.
- Well, they're vintage now. (all laughing)
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- I would say that everybody should pay attention
to what's in the basement and I will leave it at that.
- Oh, that's a good one.
It was pitch black, actually.
Like we had the real flashlights
to actually see what we were doing.
Yeah, so it was just as scary. - Yeah.
- There's one scene in particular where, in the script,
it's written that rats kind of run across
in front of me and I thought they were gonna CGI it.
And I get to set that day they have
cages of rats, plus the dark basement,
and rats running across your feet.
It's pretty eerie down there. (all laughing)
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- Yeah, we were kind of learning as we went along
'cause we were getting episodes as we were shooting
like we were getting scripts as we were shooting.
So we never really fully knew where we were going
along our journey, which was kind of cool
'cause then we had to really be in the moment
and just live in our characters right then and there.
And then we would find out
what would happen in the next block.
- Well, we did get those little timelines, though.
- Oh, yeah. - So we all kind of had
a rough idea of where our characters were gonna go.
We knew the pit stops we were gonna make along the way,
but we didn't know all the little interlude moments.
Those were just surprises.
- Yeah, they did, yeah, in the sheet and everything.
They gave us a whole breakdown of our past as well,
which was really helpful.
So, yeah, we knew exactly where we were
at that time, at least.
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- I mean I definitely want,
I want Dr. Stanton to come tell
a story for the Midnight Club,
that's my biggest hope if we get a season two.
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- Heather's an icon. - Oh, yeah.
- Heather's just, she's so fun and humble.
- [Annarah] Like the sweetest human being ever.
- Yeah, for real.
She's also just very, I don't give up, you know what I mean?
(all laughing) Like she's pretty badass.
I remember one time she took me to go get fried chicken
and she pulled up outside of my house to drop me off
and she held up traffic for like 15 minutes
while she told me a story.
Everyone was like (honking).
She was like blowing kisses to the drivers and stuff.
I was like, "Okay, Heather, I'm riding with you!"
(all laughing) Yeah, Heather's sick.
We love Heather. - Yeah.
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- We did the first table read in the library.
- Yeah. - Which was so cool.
'Cause we had actually,
we never saw the whole set and it was done at that time.
- Yeah. - And that was really,
really cool. - Yeah.
The moment of just walking into this massive library
is honestly one of the most magical moments being there.
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- Oh, yeah, well, they found me on TikTok,
in the dark corners of the internet.
I thought casting were taking the piss
when they asked me to audition because I was like
I never acted so I was like, you know,
so I submitted like a self tape and I was like
I'm never gonna hear back from them.
And then they rang me and told me I got it
and I was like, "You sure?" (all laughing)
I was like, "You sure?"
So yeah, you just kind of, I mean,
we were all, a lot of us were in the same boat
so we were just kind of like threw ourselves into it
and we had each other so it wasn't,
I'm not gonna lie though,
some days I did go back to my trailer
and I was like, oh god. (all laughing)
- Yeah I thought it was a scam because--
(all laughing) - A scam?
- It was so good to be true.
You know, I was like Jesus, like I'm gonna be on Netflix?
'Cause I got a call, the very next day I sent in a tape
'cause they were looking for Amesh.
I think I was the last person person to get cast.
- Yeah, you were. - And yeah it was,
they were like, "Oh we love you and we wanna get on Zoom."
And I was like, okay, here we go.
Take all my money. (all chuckling)
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- For me, it was the whole scene at the very end.
Spoiler, I can say that though.
It was the scene at the very end where Sandra leaves
'cause that was just a lot of crying all day
and then you guys were just, it was like ugh.
And driving in the car, I actually drove away in the car.
It was very tough.
But that scene I was really, really proud of
and it was nice to have
literally everybody in the scene with me.
- Obviously the moments between Amesh and Natsuki,
I think those private moments
where we really express ourselves to each other and stuff,
those scenes were really, really special.
- Yeah, I'd say 'cause Amesh, you get to see
a whole different side of him and I just,
I love playing a very malleable character.
I feel like once you get to see Amesh's vulnerable side,
that's very, that's very fun to see.
- For me, I want to say for episode nine,
I was strapped to a scientific machine
that was supposed to be lasering on my eye.
There was like a screw that I started picking at
while I was screaming.
And I remember at some point it fell and I slit,
I sliced my finger and I was bleeding.
And I was (screams) and I don't think they noticed,
'cause they were like, keep rolling, keep rolling.
Perfect, keep screaming.
I'm like (screams)
and I'm actually bleeding out on the floor.
And I remember that day being like,
"Wow, I'm losing oxygen."
But then I saw the result, I was like that was amazing!
Thank you guys for rolling.
- That was insane. - Yeah.
- That's such a Chris experience.
- It really is. - I loved it.
- I loved that the moments that I got to,
I think in Ilonka's story,
I have a couple moments with Ruth.
It's your character, Scotty, correct?
- Oh, yeah. - Together.
- Oh, with the umbilical cords?
- Yeah and I think those moments are really beautiful.
- I like just remembering Anya, like we told stories
about her in episode 10, this is a spoiler.
And I just loved how we were all telling our story
about Anya and remembering her and
it was such a beautiful day too
'cause everybody was crying.
We cry a lot on this show. - So much.
- We cry a lot.
But it was just really beautiful to just remember her
and commemorate her and stuff, so I loved it.
- I'm gonna go super early in the season.
I was so nervous about Kevin meeting Ilonka.
That was like, I was very nervous about that scene,
but I think it came out pretty well, so.
- Yeah. - There was a scene
in episode two with Ilonka where Anya has another go at her
and gives it to her for kind of saying like,
pity isn't helpful and it was a huge big monologue.
I'm not very good at putting things into words,
like how I'm feeling and I remember how I felt
as a disabled teenager, I'm like, that's how I felt.
I was just never able to put it into words.
That scene for me, I could feel it
when I was saying the lines, in the pit of my stomach.
- I wasn't in the room and I felt that.
(all laughing) - I was,
I was just peeking through the door,
I was like damn, okay.
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- Oh my gosh.
I think before our big kiss scene,
we were like, all right, we're gonna kiss, here we go.
And then we started dancing. - We're gonna kissing.
- It was just us in the green room
and we're like-- - We were dancing in a circle.
- Yeah, we were doing laps around like, all right, kiss.
And then we would high five every time we passed each other.
And then they're like, "All right, you're ready."
All let's, let's do it. - We're like, okay,
let's go.
- Aya likes to scare people. - Oh, yes.
- A lot, she's loves that. - I do.
- [All] Thanks, Buzzfeed.
- Make sure you catch us in "The Midnight Club" on Netflix.
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