5 quips from the cast of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Credit to Author: Stuart Derdeyn| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 19:57:15 +0000
On a set visit to the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to preview Season 3 of the Netflix series, the cast were on hand to provide some inside tidbits about the coming episodes.
Presently filming Season 4, interviews took place in the living room of the Spellman house, an opulent set brimming with inventiveness at Martini Film Studios in Langley.
To say that the designers and set decorators haven’t been having fun on this show would be a lie. Among this reporter’s favourite hidden bits and bobs were the Spellman Mortuary flyers stacked in Aunt Zelda Spellman’s office, a Thin White Duke-era David Bowie photo on Sabrina’s bedroom wall, and the large jar labelled baby fat in the cabinet adjacent to the unicorn skull in the mortuary.
When it happens, the prop auction for this program is going to be epic. Everyone wants to put Sabrina’s opulent bathroom in their home or condo. Yeah, it’s sweet.
Here are five things cast members had to say about the show.
Actor Tati Danielle (The 100) plays Prudence Blackwood, the alpha of the trio known as the Weird Sisters. Season 3 showcases her sword skills and they look sharp. “I’m actually a black belt in a branch of Shito-Ryu karate, so the first time I worked with the stunt guy with the swords in blocking rehearsals he was ‘you’re all good.’” said Danielle. “The only thing I needed work with was the actual fighting with the swords and knowing stances and such.”
In Season 3, elements of the “witty, puckish and pansexual” character of Sabrina’s talented warlock cousin have shifted, been lost, evolved and expanded upon. The actor says that he has “always been a freak with a precocious self-confidence that, at times, has bordered on arrogance, and I’ve paid for it at times.” This could be a script note for the role.
Lucy Davis, who plays the character of Aunt Hilda Spellman, loves nothing more than to play practical jokes on cast and crew, including her love interest Doctor C, played by noted Vancouver actor Alessandro Juliani. “He’s so easy to work with, that we kind of mess around with each other if not on our own scenes. I’ll hide my cellphone somewhere on the set and film the scene to record it or, on a recent read-through, I got hold of Gavin (Leatherwood, who plays Nick Scratch) and blacked out some of the lines.” She says everyone is “pretty good” with this.
There are rabbits all over the Spellman House set. Miranda Otto, who plays Aunt Zelda Spellman, says she thought they must be her character’s familiar only to discover that they are a Satanic symbol. Scottish actor Michelle Gomez, who plays Mary Wardwell/Lilith/Madam Satan, says the rabbits are there for the whole “mangle, dangle, strangle and tangle angle.” This was the catchphrase her aunt in the Highlands used to describe how you trap, hang, kill and skin a rabbit in the woods. “It doesn’t take much for us to go to the dark side around here,” says Gomez.
Playing the voodoo priestess Marie Mambo in Season 3 gave actor Skye Marshall (Black Lightning) the opportunity to wear opulent, flowing fabrics and really enjoy herself. It was also the first show where the actor was allowed to to wear her own natural tall, curly hairstyle. “This was the first time that I was able to have my natural hair, my pineapple, and it was awesome. Because the pineapple is power, it lets me stand in my truth.”
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