During an interview with Movieweb about her upcoming role in the film DEATH OF ME, actress Alex Essoe talked a bit about her experience working with Mike Flanagan, as she had starred in DOCTOR SLEEP as Wendy Torrence, and is set to star in two of his upcoming Netflix horror series: HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR (the sequel to HAUNTING ON HILL HOUSE) and MIDNIGHT MASS.
Here's what she said about HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR:
This season is based on a book by Henry James. Well, more of a novella, but It's called The Turn of the Screw. There was a movie adaptation of a play that had been written based on that book in 1960 called The Innocents, starring Deborah Kerr. If no one has seen that, you must watch this movie. It's one of my favorite movies. It's a true Victorian Gothic ghost story. It's brilliantly filmed, but I digress. I'm going on a tirade.
So it's based on this movie, and it's about a governess goes to this beautiful manor in the countryside to look after these two children who have lost both of their parents in the past couple years, and their previous governess in last year, who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. So now she's there, and she's trying to help these children. But the children, even though they are lovely and charming, and she absolutely loves them, they exhibit very unnerving behavior at times. So the show is really about her trying to get to the heart of why that is and what it is that's causing it. That's all I'll say, story-wise. I play the mother of the two children. The mother who is deceased. I think I am in episodes five and six where they kind of go more into the backstory. It was super fun. It was super fun to put her on.
And here's what she said about her role in the more mysterious MINDNIGHT MASS:
In a nutshell, it’s kind of like Salem’s Lot meets The Perfect Storm. A sleepy little island community of staunch Catholics, and their belief is their undoing. I’ll put it that way. I won’t say anything about what character I’m playing because it’s such a great surprise. I can’t really go on about that one…If I do it right, you won’t know it’s me.
Meanwhile, HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR will premiere on Netflix October 9th, while MIDNIGHT MASS is set to premiere sometime next year!
So what do you guys think? Fan of Flanagan's work? If so, looking forward to HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR or MIDNIGHT MASS? Either way, sound off below!