- Hi, I'm Henry Thomas and I play Henry Wingrave.
- Hi, I'm Victoria Pedretti and I play Dani Clayton.
- Hi, I'm Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and I play Peter Quint.
- Hi, I'm Amelia Eve and I play Jamie.
Hi, I'm T'Nia Miller and I play Hannah Grose
in "The Haunting of Bly Manor".
- And we're here with BuzzFeed
to answer your burning questions.
- But warning, warning, spoiler alert.
- So you haven't watched it?
Just go back, watch it and come back again.
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- All of the Lady in the Lake scenes were so terrifying
and amazing, was Kate Siegel in those scenes?
How did you film them?
Kate Siegel was not in those scenes,
an incredible strong,
tall, athletic woman
named Daniela
did all of those scenes.
Being dragged by the lady of the Lake
was a really complicated thing to accomplish.
I personally felt a bit like a puppet.
We were rigged up on so many strings
going in different directions.
- I get choked out - Yeah
- By the Lady of the Lake.
- We're all victims of the Lady of the Lake.
It's not fun being dragged along by that.
'Cause you are on this kind of the same contraption.
- T'Nia did you know Hannah
was going to be dead the entire time?
And if not, when did you find out?
- I didn't know, I didn't know at all.
(chuckles)
Mike and Lynn Falconer, who's our costume designer,
'cause we're tryna plan costumes ahead
and she's saying, well asking, have I read episode five?
Have I read episode five?
And I was like, "No, I haven't read episode five yet.
"I'ma get to it, I promise."
And when it came up I was like, (beep)
I'm a ghost, oh my God (chuckles)
I'm a ghost, that's so super cool.
I've never played a ghost before.
And then came the daunting question,
how do you play a ghost?
- We see what looks like Dani's hand on Jamie's shoulder
at the very end of the series.
Do you think Dani visited Jamie before?
Or was this the first time?
- I think Dani is always with Jamie.
- I think yes, but I think also when she goes to Bly,
it's all that much more palpable,
'cause after all it is "The Haunting of Bly Manor"
and not the haunting of Jamie's shoulder.
- I believe that Dani's been with Jamie the whole time
ever since Jamie sees her under the water
and she hasn't left her.
However, I don't think Jamie knows necessarily.
I think Dani was so keen to like absorb all of this
bad energy and not let it ever affect anybody else again,
she was so selfless in that respect
and Jamie's quite a selfless person.
So I think if Jamie could have,
she would have taken off of Dani,
but Dani wouldn't let her.
And so that's why she, Dani doesn't let Jamie know
that she's there, but she is there this whole time.
And I feel like this whole story,
the whole of "The Haunting of Bly Manor" story
that's encompassed within that story that the narrator tells
is the first time that Jamie
would have really delved back into that memory
and pulled it all out and a bit of a catharsis of sorts.
But it's open to interpretation.
- Oliver, what was it like working with Benjamin?
And did you help him come up with how Miles would act
when Peter was in control?
- He's incredible.
With all of this stuff with peter and, and Miles,
we would sit down and I would do this thing,
I would read the Miles lines as Peter
and then he would kind of copy it
and then when we would go to shoot,
I would basically be just off camera
trying kinda help direct him.
'Cause it's quite a hard thing to us,
unlike a 10, 11 year old to suddenly be a 35 year old.
- If Hannah didn't die,
do you think her and Owen would have tried
being in a relationship?
Do you think they would have lasted as long as
Dani and Jamie?
- Yeah.
I think that Hannah hasn't been touched for a man
for so long, that once she started to having,
getting some, you know, (chuckles)
she would have been holding on to her man for dear life.
- Victoria, do you have a favorite Dani and James thing?
- I personally really liked the moonflower scene.
It's really says something that Jamie
who keeps everything so private
takes the time to water their flower, you know,
to try to cultivate this relationship
and open up and be vulnerable.
- I really like filming the one in our flower shop.
It was like a promising moment for them finally,
everything had been a bit of a trial up until then
and someone was always a bit down
and someone was pulling somebody else up.
And so it was finally a moment where we both
just got to be happy in this relationship
and it was, it was really beautiful.
- Peter couldn't leave Bly
even when he was inside of Rebecca.
Why do you think Dani could leave
with the lady of the Lake inside of her?
- I actually don't know.
- Yeah, no, 'cause Rebecca fully consents.
She, she allows it, they get fully integrated.
- Yeah.
- Amelia did you know going in that Carla Gugino
was going to portray an older Jamie?
- No, (chuckles) I really didn't.
And you think my grin is big now?
You should have seen it that day
that I found out that Carla was gonna play the older Jamie.
I had a conversation with my mom and I was like,
"Mom, if there's any chance I book this role
"for Bly Manor, imagine if I got to work with Carla Gugino,
"how cool would that be?"
And I was so excited.
And then to find out he's gonna play the older version
of my character I was like (squeals).
- Having Carla Gugino around is,
it's like you're-- - It's the best.
- The luckiest person in the world.
You're just like,
"How do I get to be in the presence of this human being?"
And it was so, it was the most incredible,
beautiful thing to finish that season
and watch her being Jamie and loving Dani.
It meant like, oh my God,
it was like really touching.
- It's nice when Carla Gugino likes you.
- I know.
- In real life or fictionally.
- The residents of Bly Manor are all so close
and become a found family.
What's your favorite memory from set?
- Yeah, do you remember the butter scene?
So... - Yeah I do. (chuckles)
- The kitchen scenes are always the most fun
because it's like herding cattle and getting us to behave.
- Yeah - Children were actually
very well behaved, it was the adults.
Well there was one particular day where I went to
making a cake.
Benjamin he plays Miles, doesn't do sugar.
Yeah I'm just thinking about this when Covid and with him
and there is big thing of butter,
we shot about five times
and we're all dipping our fingers into this butter,
I've had got OCD,
so I was like mh-mh. - Licking this spoon.
(chuckles) - Licking this spoon
again and again and again,
They didn't change that bowl between takes, you know,
it's one shot you see it as it is.
Ben was just getting high and high,
In fact he was wild. (chuckles)
He was up bouncing up the scene,
- Bouncing was cool. - It was hilarious
and then the whole thing crashed.
And then these guys, you Amelia, you started it,
(Amelia chuckles)
you started the food fight in the kitchen
and I ended up covered in flour.
- Did you have a favorite hidden ghost this season?
- Yes, my favorite ghost was the Soldier.
- Our favorite Ghost was the Plague Doctor.
- That was my favorite ghost too.
- Really?
I thought you were gonna say the child.
- No, that was a bit too creepy.
- I think mine was Soldier guy.
- My favorite ghosts were the Doll Face boys,
there is three of them-- - Oh my God
- Playing Doll Face boys
and they were just, oh, they was the cutest, the most
- Wasn't that terrifying? - Incredible sweet children.
- Do you identify more with your character
from "Hill House" or your character from "Bly manor".
- I think I'd have to identify more with Hugh Crain
than Henry Wingrave just because I'm more
from Hugh Crain's world.
- Similarly I feel like the world I've come from
or live in I guess is a bit more similar to Nell
than to Dani,
but I don't find it difficult to relate to Dani.
- I feel, I feel like I relate more to Luke Crain
than I do Peter Quinn.
- T'Nia, what was it like-- - Yes.
- Filming this film with Owen and Hannah in the kitchen
over and over again.
And why do you think that
that was such a special memory for Hannah?
- She fell in love with him.
She says it right at the end,
"This moment right here,
"I thought what a beautiful, incredible sweet man."
And it's the first time that since the parting of her
husband, that she felt that.
- Henry, how was it playing two different versions
of the same character?
- Well, it was very exciting.
It was very challenging because obviously I'd have to know
both sides of the scene,
but the way that we filmed them was very difficult.
Because once you got a take that we could use for one side,
then we were locked into that performance.
It was probably the most calculating that I've ever had to
do on set in terms of scene work.
But I'm really proud of the scenes.
- Did you keep anything from set?
- I kept some earrings, I kept some earrings.
- (mumbles) Sorry, I got one of Jamie's dresses,
which was cool.
(T'Nia gasps)
One that was made for me 'cause it didn't,
it was just a massive wreck. - Ow
- And then they pinned it and fit it and
shaped it to make fit me.
- There are some subtle references to "Hill House"
that fans might pick up on.
Do you have a favorite reference?
- I think when Rahul and T'Nia are discussing
what's happening and they're trying to figure out
what's happening and, and, and,
and Mrs Grose is kind of in this other reality
because she's dead
and they're just like, and time, time, time.
And they just don't,
they don't say falls around me like confetti,
but they just keep almost getting to it.
- Bly Manor was a gorgeous location.
So how much of the season was shot on location
versus what was filmed on a set?
- I think half and half.
- I think because, because they separated out into floors,
we had the whole of the upstairs in one, in one set
and then downstairs was all one set totally,
it felt like the downstairs of the house.
The exterior itself as well was filmed next to a weed farm,
which was just brilliant.
(laughs)
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