Netflix ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ cast couldn’t sleep after filming

Oliver
Jackson-Cohen as Luke in “The Haunting of Hill
House”
Netflix

• Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” is scaring audiences,
  but it also left its cast unsettled.
• Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who plays the adult Luke Crain on the
  show, and Elizabeth Reaser, who plays Shirley, told
  Metro that they couldn’t sleep and were seeing things during
  filming.
• “In prep I started to think that someone sat at the end of my
  bed in the night and stupid s— like that,” Jackson-Cohen said.
• “When you’re drumming that stuff up for so long, you kind of
  get a hang-up on it,” Reaser added.

 

Netflix’s new horror series, “The Haunting of Hill House,” is
terrifying audiences, but it also left its cast feeling uneasy.

Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who plays the adult Luke Crain on the show,
and Elizabeth Reaser, who plays his older sister Shirley, told
Metro that they couldn’t
sleep and were seeing things during filming.

“In prep I started to think that someone sat at the end of my bed
in the night and stupid s— like that,” Jackson-Cohen said.

“I had no ghostly interactions but I feel like there’s something
that happens to your subconscious when you’re pretending like
this for nine months,” Reaser added. “It’s more not being able to
sleep, feeling crazed … when you’re drumming that stuff up for
so long, you kind of get a hang-up on it. It’s like your body
doesn’t know you’re pretending.”

“The Haunting of Hill House” follows the Crain family between the
past, when they lived in the haunted Hill house, and the present,
when they are still recovering from the events of their
childhood.

It has proven to be a big hit for Netflix. The show has a 92%
Rotten Tomatoes critic score, and is surging toward the top of
people’s must-see horror shows. Data provided by Parrot Analytics
to Business Insider showed that the show is the third most “in-demand” horror
show with audiences, only behind “The Walking Dead” and
“American Horror Story.”

That’s a big accomplishment considering those are two of the
biggest shows on TV and have been on the air for nearly a decade,
while “The Haunting of Hill House” debuted on Netflix only a
little over a week ago.

There’s no word on a season two just yet, but considering how big
of a success the show is, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the
Crain family return.

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