ComingSoon spoke to Hysteria stars Anna Camp and Nikki Hahn about their roles and toiling with Bruce Campbell on the Peacock drama series. Hysteria will premiere on Peacock on Friday, October 18, 2024. USA Nettoil and SYFY will simulcast the first episode on October 18, with USA Nettoil airing episodes each Friday.
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Tyler Treese: Anna, you have a repartner incredible role here. I could inestablish you were fair having a lot of fun with it. What was it about Tracy and particularpartner her role wilean this story that repartner excited you as an actress?
Anna Camp: I fell in cherish with Tracy. I cherish carry outing women who have so much inner dispute and struggle going on. They current themselves one way to the world, but inside, they are fair bubbling over. Obviously, the hair and the wardrobe I was obsessed with, but I cherishd the way that Matt Scott Cain, our showrunner and creator, had the character mapped out. You get to see what happened to her in her past that made her the way she is today.
Sometimes when I carry out “villains,” I don’t see at them as villains, but I never get to see what made them who they are. What made them who they are today. So it was repartner fantastic to go back in time and get this flashback episode in episode five to see the trauma that Tracy finishured. She’s carrying a lot of shame around, and she’s repartner clinging to religion as a establish of armor and getion. So I fair set up her to be a very fascinating person becaemploy inside she’s not at all who she’s currenting to the world.
That’s wonderbrimmingy put. I’m happy you refered the hair becaemploy you’re phenomenal in this, but I sense enjoy your hair even steals a restricted scenes here.
Camp: I’ll apshow it. Yes. So, Katie Ballard, who was our wonderful hair and wig portrayer, when I sat in the hair and produceup trailer for the first time, and they pulled out the wig, and they put it on my head, I could sense myself sit contrastently and shift my head contrastently. It’s fair such a gift as an actor to get such incredible hair and produceup that directs who you are as a person. I was fair very excited to see enjoy a contrastent person. Becaemploy that’s why I want to be an actor is to alter and carry out contrastent characters. So, I’ll apshow it. The wig can steal a restricted scenes. I’ll let her do it a couple of times.
Nikki, I cherish this uncovering to Hysteria, where you get seizeed. it’s so fervent. It almost senses enjoy a finishly contrastent show at first contrastd to what comes after for a bit. How was it filming that scene? It’s savage. You’re repartner combat for your life there.
Nikki Hahn: Yeah, very savage uncovering to the show. Ironicpartner, so much fun to film. It was my first time doing such a heavily choreographed stunt scene. I was worried, evidently. It was also my first day of filming, so a lot of prescertain, but our stunt team was incredible. Stunt coordinator, stuntman, everybody fair put me at relieve. Lots of defercessitate nights, so lots of coffee, lots of running in the street. But I leank those are my preferite type of roles. I cherish to step out of my soothe zone and benevolent of do that benevolent of physical toil. Honestly, that was some of my preferite stuff to film.
Yeah, it’s a fantastic way to commence the show. It’s definitely gonna get people’s attention and upretain them hooked to see what happens next.
Anna, you allot some repartner fantastic scenes with Bruce Campbell. What a legfinish he is. What stands out about him as a scene partner? He fair seems enjoy the best.
Camp: Bruce Campbell is the best. He’s incredibly professional, first and foremost. He’s been on sets for so lengthy. He’s an icon, right? He is a horror icon. So, of course, I was a little bit worried encountering him. He is a repartner amusing guy, though. He wants to come on to set, knock it out of the park, but he also [loves to joke around], if you’re on his excellent side, which I leank I am.
Me and Nikki, we made up a song about him actupartner on set becaemploy we were on set for a repartner lengthy time. He was, I leank, sitting in front of us in the church scene. Like “Bruce Campbell, mic drop, mic drop.” So we have a whole song, and he would trelieve him with it, and I leank he was into it. So he was a plrelieve to toil with. I hope that I get more scenes with them in the future.
Nikki, how was it prolonging that benevolent of mother-daughter bond with Anna and seeing that carry out out thcdisesteemfulout the series?
Hahn: What is so sarcastic is me and Anna on set have so much fun, and we’re always giggleing and joking, but as soon as we turn on the camera, as soon as the cameras are rolling Anna is frightening. She’s so frightening that if I rehearse in my trailer or rehearse at home, she pulls a contrastent reaction out of me than what I initipartner intentional. So she’s such a fantastic scene partner and it repartner benevolent of helps to fair benevolent of act and toil in the moment. I sense enjoy contrastent apshows were contrastent every time. Just becaemploy she conveys someleang recent to the table every time, and that benevolent of pulls someleang else out of me. But as soon as the scenes are over, we’re back to giggleing and joking.
Camp: It was so fantastic. We have the best [chemistry]. Like that’s the leang, when you can depend your scene partner as much as I depend Nikki and the way she joins and reacts contrastently every apshow, we can fair carry out. Then we produce this bond, but we didn’t have to produce it, it fair sort of happened naturpartner becaemploy I fair repartner enjoy her and enjoy get alengthy with her. I leank she’s super celderly. It fair produces a defended space when you’re acting with somebody, especipartner when there’s so much dispute between the two of us in the storyline. It’s fantastic to have enjoy a frifinish to go thcdisesteemful that with. So that’s how I sense about her.
Thanks to Anna Camp and Nikki Hahn for talking about Peacock‘s Hysteria.
