'Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen' Is Not What You Expect
Camila Morrone in 'Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.'
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[This story hints at spoilers from Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.]
Netflix’s Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is probably your next binge.
The wedding horror series comes from creator Haley Z. Boston (Brand New Cherry Flavor), the idea spun out of her own paranoia around marrying the wrong person. The eight-episode saga stars Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones & the Six) and Adam DiMarco (The White Lotus) as the engaged couple who play out Boston’s prenuptial fears. The genre-jumping thriller boasts Baby Reindeer‘s Weronika Tofilska as lead director, and it’s the first show to be executive produced by Matt and Ross Duffer following Stranger Things.
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Below, in the non-spoiler first part of an interview with Boston, the Something Very Bad creator talks to The Hollywood Reporter about her inspiration behind the bloody and creepy horror series (which is getting rave reviews), casting her two leads and the biggest debates they had while hoping viewers give the show enough room to reveal itself by the end: “There was a lot of discussion about, Are we going to scare people away?“
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How did this go from a fear of yours into becoming a Netflix series?
The show is really inspired by my parents’ marriage. They have a really wonderful marriage. They’ve been together for 40 years, and they sort of unintentionally put a lot of pressure on me by showing me that true love exists. I was always weighing my romantic experiences against this sort of impossible standard. I was 27, and I had a lot of friends who were getting married. I was just thinking a lot about what makes someone the right person. What is a soulmate and does that exist? How do you know? I wanted to explore that through a horror lens. I see the world in horror. I see the bad in everything, so it just came naturally to me to follow that story through.
Can you share your relationship status? I’m curious after watching this if you are you in a relationship and how you feel about romance now?
I’m pro-romance. I have this fear of commitment — which has now been cured — so now I am in a relationship, yes. She’s only seen the pilot.
So she doesn’t know how it ends?
No.
But you are the Rachel in this story [the character played by Morrone], would you say?
I actually am Nicky [the character played by DiMarco], I would say. I know — plot twist! I identify with both of them, of course. What I identify with in Rachel is her paranoia and feeling that something bad is going to happen, and her reading into signs from the universe. Then with Nicky, though, I think his backstory — and my family is not quite that creepy, my family is much more normal! But this idea that he built his romantic identity around his parents’ relationship was very much inspired by my parents. I was thinking while we were writing the show, what is something that would completely change my world view? And it was if I found out that my parents’ marriage was not what I thought. So putting Nicky through that was something I really related to. I think his character, maybe, is going to get a bad rap for how he handles the end of the show. But I think he’s trying to do the right thing, and he’s just misguided.
Adam DiMarco as Nicky Cunningham with Camila Morrone as Rachel Harkin in a later episode of Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen.
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Was your writers room made up of mostly pro-romance writers, people in relationships?
Everyone was married except for me, and two my writers were married to each other. That was very fun and cool, and probably a bit of couples therapy for them being in the writers room. I’m the least cynical, but it’s very interesting to hear everyone’s perspective on marriage. The show touches on this, but a lot of it does come from your parents and the kind of marriage you were raised in, which I find very interesting. Thematically, that also ties into the idea of wedding tradition. So much of it has to do with the people who came before you.
How did the Duffers get involved in this series, the first series they are executive producing not in the Stranger Things universe?
So I had written the pilot script, and I pitched it to several producers. I was really excited to pitch it to them. I was glad they were inte