Netflix’s ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ cast on how they prepared

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• The cast of Netflix’s horror hit series “The Haunting of Hill
  House” explained how they prepared for their roles in an
  interview with Spot.
• “I watched a lot of embalming videos and looked at pictures
  of dead bodies,” said Elizabeth Reaser, who plays Shirley.
• “I think in the pre-production phase, we all spent a lot of
  time together, got to know each other,” said Henry Thomas, who
  plays the young Hugh Crain.

Netflix’s new horror series, “The Haunting of Hill House,” is a
massive hit for the streaming service, and the cast went to great
lengths to bring it to life.

In an interview with Spot, Elizabeth Reaser, who
plays the adult Shirley Crain, explained the unsettling ways she
prepared for her role.

“I play a mortician and a funeral home director, so I worked with
a mortician in Georgia and I watched a lot of embalming videos
and looked at pictures of dead bodies,” Reaser said.

Henry Thomas, who plays the father of the family in the past,
Hugh Crain, had a less disturbing answer.

“A lot of it was built between the relationships between the
characters,” Thomas said. “So I think in the pre-production
phase, we all spent a lot of time together, got to know each
other. Because the story is told through two timelines with
almost a separate cast for each timeline, it was important for us
to all work together and be on the same page in terms of the
story.”

At least he didn’t have to look at dead bodies.

Watch the full interview below:

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