Maggie Grace I couldn’t have imagined a better co-star Minka Kelly When it came to shooting his new movie, Blackwater Lane,
“I think having this very deep, long-term friendship with Minka, it’s absolutely easy to love her,” Grace, 40, exclusively told PEOPLE. our weekly“She’s so sweet, and I think she’s a naturally authentic and sensitive person. She has a natural sweetness and also a kind of sadness to her and I think she was perfect for Cass in many ways.”
Based on the New York Times bestselling book BA Paris, Blackwater Lane follows Cass (Kelly) who, after witnessing a horrific tragedy on a dangerous country road, is visited by a ghostly presence and begins to question her own mental state. As the otherworldly experiences intensify, Cass finds herself teetering close to the brink until she begins to piece together the pieces of a sinister plot against her. Grace plays Cass’s best friend Rachel, while Dermot Mulroney Matthew plays her husband. As she falls deeper in, the two begin to worry about Cass’s mental state.
Though Grace didn’t know Kelly, 43, prior to the film’s launch, she told Us that “producing the film was easy” [a history]A long-standing friendship with Friday night Lights He said their pairing was natural, even though the two had not auditioned together before being cast.
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“I’m glad we all had that chemistry,” she joked, “because the first time we met it was really cool.” [when we started shooting] In England.”
Grace said she enjoyed it All about the project’s actors — even though she doesn’t get to spend much time with them once the cameras turn off.
“It was really fun to be with the other actors, but I also had a very young son with me,” she laughed. “So I wasn’t able to go out after work to have a beer or do anything like that.” (Grace and husband Brent Bushnell share 4 year old son whom he welcomed (in October 2020)
While fun was clearly had behind the scenes, Grace and Minka’s characters have a very different on-screen experience. Grace is no stranger to the thriller/horror genre as she has starred in such projects as Fear of the Walking Dead, the Lost, the Taken And faster. Surprisingly, the actress told We Though he loves playing deep characters, watching him depends on the details.
“I love psychological thrillers [but] “I can’t stand too much gore,” she said. “When you shoot on set it’s different. It’s an appreciation of artistry. There are incredible actors involved and watching them create these things layer by layer and you’re kind of taken aback by it. And then when they add everything in CGI and quick cuts, it’s completely different. I can’t stand gore, but I love psychological thrillers.”
Luckily for Grace, Blackwater Lake is less about body horror and more about the supernatural world. Grace said ghosts and spirits are something she has a personal connection to — even if she’s not sure she still believes in their existence.
“I don’t think I’d believe in ghosts as an adult [because] I’m a lover of science, but I grew up in a very old house by American standards,” she said. We. “It had a basement that was closed with bricks [into a] A tunnel with a very dark history. [So] I believed in ghosts ever since I was a kid, living in this grand house in England and hearing creaks and squeaks every time the wind blew. It definitely makes you question whether you believe in ghosts. It was an interesting place.”
Although Grace doesn’t believe in otherworldly spirits these days, she still loves the “mood” of supernatural thrillers – and has been told We Having him in England really helped bring the story to life.
“It was naturally a very historic place, with a lot of energy and it was very beautiful,” she said. “The pond literally had swans and weeping willows and a kind of Alice in Wonderland The garden. It was a really wild place to shoot.”
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Grace said that bringing the characters to a foreign country such as England also helped build tension.
She added, “I loved the feeling of a fish out of water and the isolation that Minka’s character finds herself in in this life that she doesn’t recognize.” “And [she’s] I think she is in a country far away from her friends and family, where she is living alone. She has no idea who she is and how she got there. I think we have all had moments like that.”
Making Cass an unreliable narrator was also an added complexity to the film, which Grace feels audiences will appreciate. “We’re really on board with a character and her journey, but we’re not entirely sure what she’s going through,” she explained, “and how much we can rely on her perspective.”
Blackwater Lane Now available in theaters and digital/on demand.
With reporting from Sarah Jones
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