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We talked about the season as really
feeling like a horror movie.
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA:
of the movie
which are the only 20 minutes of the movie
that are set during the day.
And you meet our characters slowly.
You meet Jamie Lee Curtis, you meet her friends.
You see the creeper. He's out in daylight,
the same way you see Michael Myers in
those first 20 minutes.
And then you see, in 104 and 105,
the day before, and then Halloween itself.
We have several mysteries to uncover in this season.
And not all are directly tied to our slasher villain.
We, of course, in a show titled
needed to start with what that original sin was.
So we did craft the character of Angela Waters first.
Why does no one want to talk about Angela Waters?
LINDSAY CALHOON BRING:
to be tied to Angela.
(LAUGHING)
Horror movies and twins go well together.
And there's something that's inherently spooky about them.
What if Karen's not really dead?
We all saw her fall.
What if that wasn't Karen?
What if it was... Kelly?
The idea that there are two people who look identical,
and that they might be lying to you,
or they might be switching their identities.
ZARIA:
She is so sure about who she believes Karen to be,
even after death.
If Karen could see us now.
Mmm. If only.
We're gathered here to make contact with the spirit of Davey Lee Adams.
Imogen is discovering the truth,
which is she didn't know her mom.
When you're young, your parents are your parents.
You don't really see them as people.
For someone like Imogen, all she knows of her mom
is that she was an amazing, loving mother.
So I think it really shakes her to learn
that maybe she wasn't that in the past.
BAILEY MADISON:
about the Ouija board scene is
for the first time, the girl that has kept it together,
the girl that keeps fighting, the girl that is strong,
finally breaks down.
LINDSAY:
facing horror and facing sadness
is a really cathartic moment.
And I do think it pushes them together
and solidifies their friendship.
Why would you leave me?
Did it have something to do with Angela Waters?
Seriously? You have nothing to say.
Fuck you!
Everybody's just demanding answers.
But everybody's keeping secrets.
CHANDLER KINNEY:
in the boy's locker room is the very first attempt
at confronting her trauma.
She is very slow to do anything with it.
She just knows that she's desperate for any detail,
anything that could trigger a memory.
One of the things she's doing throughout the season,
is that she's processing her trauma through her art,
and through filmmaking.
Our victim will be a vulnerable, young man.
From the point of view of the female gaze.
This is a somewhat intimate scene,
so I wanna make sure everyone feels safe.
She's processing her own trauma,
and she asked for a safe set.
Oh, my God. Where's your damn Speedo, Greg?
(CHUCKLING)
We are trying to decide where our boundaries are.
And what it means when those boundaries get crossed.
Tabby. Tabby, where are you going?
For a walk.
LINDSAY:
that Greg shows up, and exposes himself,
which is an assault to her.
(PANTING)
You're okay. You're okay...
You're okay.
LISA SOPER:
was incredibly important.
It was understanding how Tabby felt about men
because of what one of them had done to her.
And really trying to be able to get in here was the challenge.
When she comes back, Chip, a young man,
has finished shooting the film for her,
which I think is a really big heartbreak.
Because she wanted to flip the gaze.
What do you mean? You shot it?
Yeah.
LINDSAY:
until episode four, where we have our rooftop chase with Noa.
(PANTING) Help!
Help!!
When I read that scene, I could not believe
it said Noa, like, I was just so excited.
That was one of the most fun days I've ever had on a set.
The action portion of it is one of my favorite things to do.
So I kind of convinced Tracy, our stunt coordinator,
to let me do it.
Ninety percent of what you saw was her.
It took a whole night to shoot because Noa was
jumping over a roof that didn't exist.
We created a fake ledge, and we had a camera angle
that you see her leaping off.
And then we had another camera where she lands.
So we built it in through visual effects,
then production design, that there was a gap
between two rooftops.
We created some high platforms. That's where we have
the shot from below.
And that was a stunt double who was rigged on a wire.
What do you want?!
Halloween is a ghoulish night.
Halloween's the scariest night of the year.
And a chance for everyone to dress up,
everyone to walk around costumed.
It was so much fun with Mouse. We built the Wendy the Witch costume,
and it just felt true to her.
So it almost felt like a costume
she could have had when she was five.
You're beautiful.
What Ash's character does is really acts as the catalyst
for her to come into herself and be more willing
to open herself to these new girls.
Because somebody finally accepts her as she is.
We also made Faran's costume from scratch.
And we just wanted to do our own version of Poison Ivy.
With Imogen, we did
I combed through the movie and tried to think
of what was the most iconic outfit.
And decided it was that nightgown.
DAVID GINSBERG:
from the cemetery, which I don't believe was originally scripted.
But once we saw all the great angles we could get,
we stood pointing at that house and saying, "That's the one."
The leadup to the Tyler kill was a huge challenge
and a massive undertaking.
ROBERTO:
We have the privileged information,
which is that A is crashing this Halloween party.
Spying on all of our characters.
We do those iconic, classic POV shots
like Michael Myers at the beginning of
Get over it. We can make our own movie.
And once you see it, you will beg me to give it to you.
(LAUGHING)
A has a strong stance against bullies,
and so seeing an epic fight between Tabby and Tyler,
and positioning Tyler as a harasser,
A, very Terminator-like, sets his sights on Tyler as a perfect kill.
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The notes for the creeper and Tyler in the bathrooms were,
"We want it brutal and we want it violent."
LISA:
So it's building and it's burning,
and it's building and it's burning.
And then once we got to this Tyler kill,
we saw what he's actually capable of.
And the camera doesn't tilt away.
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