And you do feel - with all of the sculptures - that there was a weaving in of creepy. They built this insane, beautiful, three-story house. I’m sure you’ve read about the set, which was incredible. Even though you know you’re on set and in Atlanta, you just know there’s some palpable feeling that is woven in. There is something about the emotional significance, the way Flanagan and his writers wrote this, there was never, for me, a loss of feeling to play. It works, somehow - how do you, as an actress, make that happen? Their daughter is murdered and comes back as a ghost, then they make a pact with the people responsible for her death. TVLINE | Let’s talk about what the Dudleys go through in the end of the series. And I do think that the lure of the house has a power over people that she eventually succumbs to. She says to Olivia, “You know, I wasn’t going to work for you, but when I found out there were children here…” And it’s a play on the word “housekeeper.” I mean, she’s the keeper of the house of secrets, and so therefore, there is some sort of contract she has with the dark side of the house. I think there is always in Clara Dudley… I don’t want to expound on religion, but I think sometimes she clings very tightly to that because she even yet knows that the mystical is in this house. TVLINE | Why do you think your character stays as one of the house’s caretakers when so many bad things have happened there, some of them to her? It looks like you have angel wings.” And then we utilized that, but it was not intentional going into the scene. And was like, “Wait, don’t move, don’t move. It was a happy accident, just in terms of my blocking and my timing and where I was stopping. Given what we know about all of the other visual hints Mike Flanagan worked into the series, I assume this was no accident. You’re holding paint cans in and you stop right in front of the angel sculpture, and it looks like Mrs. TVLINE | When I was rewatching, I noticed something in the scene where you and Carla are in the solarium with the sculptures. Her language isn’t antiquated, but her energy is. where is she? It’s just creepy.Īnd yet in some of the scenes with Carla, there’s even like a touch of the contemporary. Like, my boots were almost from the 1860s, and it was just a strange, off wardrobe and texture that makes it seem like she’s…. Lynn Falconer, the costume designer, wanted very specific. So you know, putting on a big shiny cross. It’s strange for me, because I’m not particularly religious in the fundamental sense. TVLINE | Did you do any kind of special prep to get into Mrs. Topics included a cool visual that was a “happy accident,” the unique way one of her co-stars introduced himself and why in the world Clara Dudley would choose to stick around such a creepy place for so long. In the Q&A below, we picked Gish’s brain about all things Hill House. Like, is her daughter real? Is she real? What, exactly, is it?” “We wanted a tiny nod to the fact that she’s lived through all of these Hills, and the potential that you never really know. “We wanted her to be almost ghostly herself,” she says. Dudley would use Rosalie Crutchley’s performance in the 1963 film adaptation as a starting point.
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Dudley is a recurring role in the series.Gish is also a fan of the Shirley Jackson novel on which the Netflix series is loosely based - and she says she and Flanagan discussed how the newest incarnation of Mrs. There was no description given, but if you're familiar with Jackson's novel or its two feature adaptations ( THE HAUNTING 1963 and THE HAUNTING 1999), then you'll know that Mrs. The announcement of Gish's casting is rare in that it included the name of her character – Mrs. The oldest Crane sibling and a published writer of supernatural books - including a memoir about his family's time living at Hill House. We only know that Huisman is playing Steven Crane,
despite being available in other countries.ĭetails on the characters in The Haunting of Hill House are being kept under wraps.
She worked with Flanagan on his film BEFORE I WAKE, which has had trouble getting released in the U.S. Previous announcements have revealed the names of thirteen cast members (Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel, Timothy Hutton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Victoria Pedretti, Mckenna Grace, Violet McGraw, Lulu Wilson, Paxton Singleton, and Julian Hilliard), and now a fourteenth name has been added to the list: Annabeth Gish.Ī prolific actress with more than 80 credits to her name, Gish is perhaps best known for playing the role of Monica Reyes on 20+ episodes of The X-Files.
The ghosts of Hill House are going to have a lot of people to spook in Mike Flanagan's 10 episode Netflix series based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House.
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