SPOILERS are coming for Imaginary, which is in theaters lately.
In Blumhouse’s latest film, Imaginary, he explores a world in which children’s imaginary friends may come from somewhere much darker than their minds. Perhaps the most notable scene in the horror movie is when Pyper Braun’s Alice is spotted by a doctor, who is filming a terrifying episode. Verbal exchange he has with his “imaginary friend” Chauncey the Bear. When CinemaBlend sat down with director Jeff Wadlow, he explained how the young actress animated the scene.
During my interview with the director of Imaginary, Jeff Wadlow shared for the first time something quite surprising about the 10-year-old actor’s casting process. In his words:
It’s your audition scene. And she just crushed him. I mean, after one take, I turned to my casting director and said, “Paint him,” which is what managers say when an actor kills him.
Wadlow also said he saw “hundreds” of actresses for the role of Alice during the casting process before locating Pyper Braun. Imaginary is Braun’s first time directing a horror film!
While Imaginary has been criticized by critics for not being creepy enough (even through our review of Imaginary), it’s hard to deny the skill and intelligence of the scene in which Alice has a full verbal exchange with Chauncey, but both sides of the verbal exchange. . . As Wadlow shared, he did it in his audition scene and inspired the director from the start. As he continued:
We read the chart via Zoom and she jumped between Alice and Chauncey as we did so. I mean, it was just mind-blowing. She’s so easy. The decision to give Alice the voice of Chauncey came too late. Chauncey had his own voice in most drafts of the script. But just as we started talking about, well, what that voice sounds like, I had this idea that I wanted the audience, at least for part of the movie, to think that maybe this was all in Alice’s head, if only for a moment. gender. In a scene or two, I sought them out to literally question the truth we were presenting, so it made sense that it would be their voice. And it was a lot of fun to watch her do it. And I trained her a little bit on how she was looking for Chauncey’s cadence. Basically, it’s a hybrid type of functionality between the two of us. I’m sure she would be very disappointed if she heard me take credit for her work, however, I had a very express cadence that I was looking for and she just gave it to her.
Especially since children can create their own voices so that an imaginary friend can get started!I know I really got chills watching the scene and now I’m going to stick to the career of the young 10-year-old actor after this stunning horror sequence.
We also talked about this amazing joke that’s also helping to break the tension!I know everyone appreciated that the doctor asked Jessica if Alice had started doing ventriloquists after the terrifying scene. Wadlow shared that he felt it was vital to have a “release” after the intensity of the sequence.
When CinemaBlend spoke to the filmmakers of Imaginary, Jeff Wadlow also told us about Chauncey’s origins, adding that the film was much more like Child’s Play. We also talked about the fact that there are two 2024 movies about imaginary friends, being John Krasinski’s IF moment, which is a fantasy family movie starring Ryan Reynolds. Wadlow and producer Jason Blum shared an awkward encounter with the production, but they’re ultimately thrilled that there will be two films on the subject.
You can tune in to more upcoming horror videos here on CinemaBlend, adding Sydney Sweeney’s Immaculate, which hits theaters on March 20.
Sarah El-Mahmoud has been with CinemaBlend since 2018 after graduating from Cal State Fullerton with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. In college, she was editor-in-chief of the award-winning college newspaper The Daily Titan, where she specialized in writing and article editing. films, profiles and artistic and entertainment covers, adding his first encounter with film reportage, with a telephone interview with Guillermo del Toro for the award for Best Film, The Shape of Water. He now covers TV and youth film, plus a lot of horror. Webslinger word. All of his writing can be read with Sarah Connor’s voiceover in Terminator 2.
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