Cast Goosebumps: fading They revealed whether they watched the first season – or spoke to the original stars of the series – after the anthology was changed.
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Ana Ortiz, Elijah M. Cooper, Galilea La Salvia, Francesca Noel, Stoney Blyden, Sam McCarthy and Jayden Bartels discussion How did they prepare to join? A show that previously had a different cast and story.
“I think because of the nature of the anthology, it's natural to keep it as fresh as possible,” Blyden, 28, who plays Trey, said of not spending too much time on what came before. “But it was a great season.”
Cooper in the meantime He was a big fan of GoosebumpsHe added: “It was a really great watch. I watched the first season a few times as well. It was legitimately creative.”
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La Salvia, 21, who brought Frankie back to life, couldn't help but agree. “I definitely watched the first season and I remember us talking about it when we first started filming,” she recalls. “As we say: Did you see the abyss? Did you see this? Did you see that? It was really fun.
The horror series premiered in October 2023 I took inspiration from R.L. Stein'Popular horror novels. Goosebumps It was pitched as a show that follows five teenagers who are forced to work together after supernatural forces are accidentally unleashed in their small town. While trying to recover the evil spirits, the group uncovers secrets from their parents' past.
Goosebumps It was initially starred Issa Briones, Anna Yi Puig, Zach Morris, Miles McKenna and price will As the heroes of the show. but, When the series was renewed Four months later, Disney confirmed that there would be a change in cast and story. The second season centers on twin boys who are sent to spend the summer in Brooklyn with their divorced father (David Schwimmer) whose in-plant testing takes a sinister turn.
“I'm someone who usually approaches things from a new perspective,” Noel, who plays Alex, noted. “I saw that pilot. But I wanted to approach it differently because it's a very different world, and New York is very special. One of the great things about it is Goosebumps Is that there are a lot of books. So there's a lot of stories we can keep telling for 20 seasons.
Disney/David Astorga fans will see a lot of changes when Goosebumps returns for its second season on Disney+. The horror series, which premiered in October 2023, is inspired by R.L. Stine's popular horror novels. Goosebumps was introduced as a show that follows five teenagers who are forced to work together after accidentally unleashing supernatural powers (…)
Ortiz had a similar experience where “I watched the first seasonBut “I didn't talk to any of the actors” from those episodes. Then there's Bartels, who researched the first season before diving into playing Sissy.
“I would definitely say I wanted to know the vibe and get that knowledge. But I think it was definitely a clean slate in another way as well. “It's the same series, but I definitely wanted my character and my performance to do what I felt was authentic and real.” we. “We definitely pulled away from the vibe of Season 1, but this is a new story and a lot of things are different. It's the same concerns as Goosebumps though.”
McCarthy agreed with Bartels, adding: “(The first season) was almost separate from the work I had done.”
This transformation was felt not only in front of the camera, but behind it as well. Executive producers Rob Letterman and Hilary Winston He said we About the challenges that It came with starting from scratch In the same universe.
“When we turned it into an anthology, it really fit what Goosebumps is. So, if you're a fan of the books, you know that R.L. Stine never writes happily at the end of the books. In fact, he does his best not to,” Letterman noted. “It leaves it with a cliffhanger or a twist. So when we looked at the end of Season 1, it seemed like the perfect Goosebumps ending to what this story was.
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But they do not rule it out A Goosebumps “The multiverse.” There was also an attempt to keep some aspects similar for returning viewers.
“For Season 2, we wanted to swing the pendulum and do something different. But we also wanted fans of Season 1 to feel comfortable in the storytelling model. “So we kept the structure of the mystery that we had to solve,” Letterman continued. “Something happened 30 years ago, and every A character she meets gets her own monster story and they cross paths, and then by the middle of the season, they discover it’s all connected to what happened in the past.”
He concluded, “We liked that framing device but wanted to tell you something completely new and fresh. It's a nice balancing act to keep the familiarity of the Goosebumps TV series going while presenting it as an anthology.”
Goosebumps It's currently streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.
