We know this is a town they can’t leave, but what can you say about anyone’s efforts to do so? Is that something more so that the new people are trying to do and people like Boyd are just resigned to their fate? I don’t think a lot of us have seen their faces. But I think the only people that would see these creatures attacking them when their faces are changed into these monsters are the people that are about to die.

They’re just people walking towards you, which is sometimes even scarier. If you are out at night, these creatures don’t appear deadly or they’re gonna kill you. Sandino Moreno: I think the only people that are gonna see the creatures are the ones that are gonna die. When you don’t know something, you still think of all the possibilities, but when you know it so sure, you try hard to have compassion, but at some point you’ll be like, “OK, then you’ll find out.” It’s such a great way for the conflict to be in the story just built right in. That’s a really interesting juxtaposition for the characters: one group of people who have no idea exactly what’s about to happen, and another group of people who know exactly what’s going to happen, and how those things just have no choice but to cause conflict.

And just as Eion was talking, I was realizing those things that I didn’t even realize watching it. I can’t say anything about it, other than the audience will see. Is there anything you can say about that? Speaking of that box, in the trailer at one point, we do see Boyd in it. We certainly don’t know where they come from or why they want to seemingly torture humans. It’s like maybe that scary kind of alien-like face is a figment of our imagination in the moment of attack and hard to know exactly what these creatures are. So it’s a very slow reveal, which I really like that they’re not fully frontal all the time. And we still, at that point, don’t know what these creatures look like. And then there’s the box in town, this contraption that Harold’s character has built and created as a town guillotine, as it’s called, to punish. What is that for? Why are you whispering about things that come in the night? Why can’t we be out at night? Then you hear whispers, don’t see them at first. And at first it’s just, in the crashed RV, why are you blocking the windows? What is that thing you’re hanging? Oh, it’s a talisman. What can you say about these terrifying creatures that come out after dark and how each of your characters handles them?īailey: For the newcomers, for Catalina and I, they are one little moment at a time revealed. The dynamics of all the relationships all have the opportunity to heal. It was a good thing.īailey: Yeah, the whole family’s wounded. This is kind of like a saving point for them, not just for the marriage, but I think for everyone involved in that family. And it makes them throughout the season a stronger family. And then this town, the nightmare of this town actually provides - and this is the credit to the writing - the opportunity to heal our relationship, even though we’re in extreme duress, because the only way that we’ll ever get out of this situation is if we figure out a way to heal the wounds and come together as a team to fight our way out of this situation.Ĭatalina Sandino Moreno: This town as a nightmarish town, as it is, I think, doesn’t just save the marriage, but it saves the relationship between the family, the relationship between the mother and daughter and the boy. How does coming to this town change things for the family and Jim and Tabitha’s marriage?Įion Bailey: We go into this town already at a crossroads in our marriage where we’re pretty close to parting ways, or we certainly recognize that that’s a real possibility, and a storyline will be illuminated later as to why the big disturbance in our family and our marriage. But I think the very first thing he feels is, “oh, man, and this guy is here with his family. We now have to figure out who they are, what they’re gonna do, which is why we just let them roll around town instead of saying, “Hey, you’re in a town filled with monsters, come on in!” I think Boyd just decides we’ll get to that part. Harold Perrineau: It does shake things up for the rest of the town, but I think the very first thing that Boyd experiences is the dread that another group of people is gonna have to deal with this nightmare that we are dealing with. So how do these new additions shake things up for Boyd and everyone else? The Matthews family comes to the town while Boyd is already there. Perrineau, Sandino Moreno, and Bailey tease the terror to come.

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