#nell crain
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“And then the wild card was Victoria Pedretti as Nell [Crain]. We looked at a lot of actors for Nell, and we got hundreds of auditions for it, and never really had that moment where we said, “Oh my God, it’s gotta be her.” And then that thing you hear about in Hollywood but you never really see, where we got a self-tape that Victoria had put together. She’d just graduated college. She’s never booked a job. She was brand new. She had an empty resume. I don’t even think she had a current headshot. But she had taped an audition herself and submitted it through her agency, and these tapes come in all the time. They usually land at the bottom of the pile of the casting director. And that tape had done what it’s supposed to do. It had bubbled its way up through all the different assistants, and every step, every person involved at Engine Casting. It made it to my casting director, Annie McCarthy, who I’ve worked with on everything I’ve done. And she called me while we were about to make an offer to another actor. She called me at eleven o’clock at night. And said, “You have to watch this tape. I think this is Nell.” And I said, “This person hasn’t done anything. Are you sure this is the right tape? There’s no resume here.” And that was Victoria. A minute into her self-tape, I knew she was Nell. And that she was a star. I also realised that if we didn’t cast her in this, someone was going to scoop her up very quickly and she would explode. And she has since this.” - Mike Flanagan
THEHAUNTINGOFHILLHOUSE(2018)
Dir. Mike Flanagan
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Mike Flanagan during “The Bent-Neck Lady” Extended Director’s Cut Episode Commentary of The Haunting of Hill House
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Silence Lay Steadily
- The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
happy nell is the best nell
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i just saw someone refer to nell’s “the rest is confetti” monologue in the haunting of hill house as “annoying” and i just… who hurt you?
huge: always the first one to fix all sabotages and finishes his tasks in time.
shirley: finishes her tasks in time. gets mad when people don’t do tasks. sometimes sees a body but chooses to ignore it.
steve: would say that there are actually no impostors and people just tripped and fell to their death and everyone’s mentally ill for thinking there are impostors.
theo: the sleuth of the group. can tell who’s lying and who’s pretending to do tasks. hates being followed and chooses to be alone all the time.
luke: calls out the impostor but no one believes him.
nell: the first one to die.
olivia: claims she’s looking out for everyone but is actually the impostor.
*during Two Storms*
hill house: omg!!! the whole family is here! let’s play hide-and-seek.
hill house: you’ll hide first, nellie!
hill house: .
hill house: … why are you crying?
Steve and Shirl trying to revive a dying Luke while Theo is in the corner having a weird sex dream about how she got on Santa’s naughty list.
The Haunting of Hill House (2018) one-shot.
Summary: After her death, Nellie drifted between past and present, sometimes trapped in moments that are beautiful, some horrifying. Happens from the moment when Nellie dies until the Red Room scene in the final episode.
Link:https://archiveofourown.org/works/28527420
Notes: This one had been in my mind some weeks ago, and while it took a while I finally finished it. Excited to hear your thoughts on this piece!
Summary:After her death and trapped as a victim of Hill House, Nell Crain drifted between past and present, sometimes trapped in moments that are beautiful, some horrifying.
“The second time the loop stopped again, Nell felt a chill that bit deep into her skin. With the cold settled deep in her bones, she opened her eyes, only to see her eldest sister in her mortician’s attire, her face glum and grief-stricken as her hands weaved a needle back and forth with skill, sealing a corpse’s scalp shut.
Upon closer inspection, Nell saw her own body on the silver table. Her skin was mottled with dark purple patches, her lips almost black as a leech. She could see a bucket underneath the table, and there was no doubt what was in the bag. Under normal circumstances Nell would have been creeped out by the silent, morbid atmosphere, but now Nell had shaken hands with death, trapped in a purgatory that she knew she could never escape. Shirley’s morgue was nothing compared to what she faced.
She watched Shirley work silently, slightly mesmerized by how Shirley’s hands seemed to move on their own. She did not want to interrupt her while she was working, knowing how much her sister took her work seriously (So serious she never answered Nellie’s calls of distress).
Her big sister then took a makeup kit and a brush; and began painting her face. Nell watched with awe, her head cocked to the side as how with every stroke of the brush, any signs of death was slowly painted away from her deceased face. She watched Shirley patiently worked on one cheek, each time making sure the tone was right, then made her way to the other cheek.
The brush stroked once before Shirley lost her grip and the brush dropped onto the table. A loud ‘clang’ resonated throughout the empty silence.
Nell was pulled out of her trance, startled by the noise, heartbroken even more as she heard a sniffle from Shirley. Her eldest sister, who hardly cried since their mother’s death, was now weeping openly as her hands, so steady and firm before, trembled in the cold.
“I’m sorry,”
I forgive you. Nell wanted to say. She took a step forward, only to find the ground giving way beneath her.
And Nell fell again. “
