Netflix`s The Haunting of Hill House is about one third horror show and two thirds family drama that spans the intersecting timelines of the Crane family--which means that the main characters are played by not only an adult cast, but an adolescent one as well to flesh out both the present and the past. But the nature of the show`s themes aren`t exactly something you`d want to expose a kid to--especially seven-year-olds Luke Hilliard and Violet McGraw, who played the youngest Crane siblings, Luke and Nell.But when asked at New York Comic-Con if terrorizing children on set was an issue during filming, Carla Gugino, who played the twins` mother, Oliva, stressed that it had been a concern of her own as she approached the project. `Mike Flanagan is great with kids, so they were always made to feel very comfortable on set,` she said. `But we also worked with an amazing all female assistant director team who were just absolutely exceptional. They took such good care of those kids while we worked.`Of course, that doesn`t mean there weren`t challenges--though less for the kids themselves and more for the adults. `There`s that scene from the trailer,` Gugino continued, `where I`m talking to the kids in bed and they have to talk about having this horrible dream and wondering if their mother would wake them from it. I was so, so worried about shooting that scene and having them have to say all of that. So while we were in rehearsal, we ran the lines and I saw our director of photography watching with just tears running down his face and I thought, `oh god, how are we going to do this?` But the second we finished up, both kids jumped up like `great! Let`s get some hot chocolate!` So, I think really they`re going to be OK.`The scene Gugino is referencing features both Hilliard and McGraw asking their mother about their gruesome deaths as if they`re nightmares from which they could be woken up from--a heart wrenching scene in any context, but one that gets especially poignant ...
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