Christina Hendricks tapped into staunch apprehension for The Strangers: Prey at Night

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When Christina Hendricks obtained the choice to essential particular person in a sequel to 2008’s The Strangers, a movie that she talked about used to be the “scariest movie I’ve ever viewed, and I admire provoking motion pictures,” the choice used to be a no-brainer.

“I correct talked about sure at as soon as. If the script is as correct because the closing one and to boot they’ll invent it as correct because the closing one, then I positively are seeking to attach out it,” Hendricks talked about.

The actress stars in Aviron Photos’ The Strangers: Prey at Night, out March 9, because the matriarch of a dysfunctional family whose one-evening stopover at a trailer park turns lethal as a physique of workers of masked strangers stalk them. “I earn to shout and urge and be alarmed, and I truly used to be in actual fact alarmed, that’s not false fear!” she talked about.

The Strangers: Prey at Night comes a decade after The Strangers starring Liv Tyler, a highly tense thriller in which a couple are hunted in their include dwelling by killers sporting creepy masks and with out a obtrusive motives.

The sequel is the principle fear film for Hendricks, who spent 9 years because the fiery fan-authorized Joan on AMC’s Emmy-a success Angry Males and these days returned to TV in NBC’s darkish comedy Appropriate Ladies.

To lift the loud, excessive-pitched screams that she wanted to emit as her persona is chased by a knife-wielding assassin, Hendricks talked about she asked the actress playing the killer to not placed on her disfigured doll-face mask unless they non-public been in actual fact filming the scene.

“We non-public been all together in a minute room and it felt, correct even talking about it merely now, I’m remembering the concern,” Hendricks talked about.

Doing an apprehension film regarded inevitable for the actress, who talked about she generally gravitates in direction of gritty, twisted stories reminiscent of Ryan Gosling’s eerie nightmare-ish 2014 memoir Lost River and Nicolas Winding Refn’s stylistic 2016 Los Angeles vampire noir Neon Demon.

“I positively am pondering about darker items. I believe it’s attention-grabbing to uncover that aspect of human behavior,” Hendricks talked about. She added, laughing, “I don’t know, what’s pass with me?”