#MADISON WOLFE MOVIE#

#MADISON WOLFE MOVIE#

The movie deals with a lot of themes of skepticism and believing in people even when nobody else does, and, Frances, your character is right at the center of that being the mother of Janet who may or may not be faking it. It’s also kind of nice to do these junkets just from having had your experience making it rather than seeing it and being on the outside looking in. O’Connor: Yeah, I just want to see it at the premiere with a big audience that’s screaming. That always happens when filming a movie – some stuff makes it in, some stuff looks totally different, some stuff you don’t even remember filming, but I think that it was a great film.

Were you surprised by changes that were made that maybe you didn’t expect were coming? I was sitting in the screening room and it’s amazing what they can do in post production. Wolfe: I was terrified too! You know, it’s funny because I was watching myself knowing exactly what’s going to happen and I was still scared. You were there making it and now to see this finished product… I mean, we were scared out of our minds. Even if it’s scary and it’s kind of adrenalized, it’s still great to be part of that world. And you feel that as an actor, when you’re working on a set with him you’re enjoying telling the story. I think watching his films, you feel that as an audience member – like he’s enjoying telling you the story. O’Connor: Yeah, he really loves story, he loves telling stories, and he loves audiences. I think that he’s so patient and so giving of his time and really is a perfectionist and I think that’s why his films come out so amazing. O’Connor: I think he’s an actors’ director, and I think because he really cares about performance and how that’s going to help tell the story. How was it like working with James Wan? What’s he like as a director? What do you think characterizes him? I had a choice to meet them, but I decided not to. I felt like, because Peggy has passed on and I’m playing their mother, I just didn’t want to meet them. It made me want to portray their story correctly and as well as I could. I think that also, for me, meeting Janet and Margaret really opened my eyes, because she talked to us and she told us, ‘this is what happened.’ I think meeting them really influenced me and my performance. I kind of believe in that stuff anyway and I think it’s not good to open that box too much, you know, because I do believe in the reality of it. Because there are real recordings you can listen to with Janet speaking with the Bill voice, and that is very terrifying.

O’Connor: I think doing the research, when you get into looking at what happened in that case, it is very scary – the reality of it. I stayed in my British accent the whole time while filming.ĭid you have any different feelings about the paranormal before you made this, and by doing this has it changed anything? Wolfe: I did! I actually did keep the water in my mouth. So did you keep the water in your mouth for the whole take? Wolfe: It was during the audition process, so a year ago, I guess. Wolfe: Well, I love scary movies, so when I read for the role of Janet I convinced my mom that I had to see the first one for research, so I finally got to watch the first one. Madison, how familiar were you with the first film? O’Connor: Well, right after the cut you would have seen us laugh a lot of the time. O’Connor: But when we were on set it was actually a lot of fun. Wolfe: And then when we uploaded my tape onto my acting coach’s computer, the date was Deceminstead of 2015, and you know The Conjuring was set in the 1970s, so we were like, ‘Oh, that’s a little weird!’

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