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Cast Goosebumps: The Vanishing revealed whether they watched the first season — or spoke to the show’s original stars — after the anthology shakeup.
During an exclusive interview with My Weekly, Cast: Ana Ortiz, Elijah M. Cooper, Galilea La Salvia, Francesca Noel, Stony Blyden, Sam McCarthy and Jayden Bartels discussed as they prepared to enter a show that previously had a different cast and story.
“I think because of the anthology nature of it, it’s natural for it to be something new,” said Blyden, 28, who plays Trey, about not dwelling too much on what’s come before. “But it was a fantastic season.
Cooper, meanwhile, he was a big fan Goose bumpsadding: “It was a really cool watch. I also watched the first series several times. It was legitimately iconic.”
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La Salvia (21), who revives Frankie, couldn’t help but agree. “I definitely watched the first season and I remember we talked about it when we were first on set,” she recalled. “It’s like saying, ‘Did you see the cliffhanger? did you see it Did you see that?’ It was really fun.”
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Goose bumps initially with an asterisk Isa Briones, Ana Yi Puig, Zack Morris, Miles McKenna and Will Price as the protagonists of the show. However, when the series was renewed Four months later, Disney confirmed that there would be a cast and story change. Season 2 revolves around twins who are sent to spend the summer in Brooklyn with their divorced dad (David Schwimmer), whose plant testing takes a sinister turn.
“I’m someone who usually approaches things with a fresh perspective,” noted Noel, who portrays Alex. “I saw the pilot. But I wanted to enter it differently because it’s a completely different world and New York is very specific. And one of the great things Goose bumps that there are so many books. So there are so many stories that we could tell for 20 seasons.”
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Ortiz had a similar experience where she “watched the first season“, but “hasn’t spoken to any of the cast” from those episodes. Then there’s Bartels, who researched Season 1 before diving into playing Cece.
“I would definitely say I wanted to know the atmosphere and get that knowledge. But I think it was definitely a fresh slate in another way, too. It’s the same show, but I definitely wanted my character and my performance to do what I felt was authentic and genuine,” she explained. Our. “We were definitely building on the atmosphere of the first season, but this is a new story line and a lot of things are different. It’s all the same that gives goosebumps.’
McCarthy agreed with Bartels’ notion, adding, “(Season 1) was almost separate from the work I was doing.”
The shift was felt not only in front of the camera, but also behind it. Executive Producers Rob Letterman and Hilary Winston he said Our about the challenges that he came up with a start from scratch in the same universe.
“When we moved into the anthology, it really fit what Goosebumps is. So if you’re a fan of the books, you know that RL Stine doesn’t write happily ever after at the end of the books. In fact, he goes out of his way not to,” Letterman noted. “He leaves it with a cliffhanger or a twist. So when we looked at the end of Season 1, it felt like the perfect cliffhanger ending for what the story was.”
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However, they do not rule it out AND Goose bumps “multiverse.” There was also an effort to keep some aspects similar for returning viewers.
“In the second season, we wanted to swing the pendulum and do something different. But we also wanted fans of the first season to feel comfortable in the model of what the narrative was. So we kept the structure of the mystery that we have to unpack,” Letterman continued. “Something happened 30 years ago, and every character you meet has their own story about monsters and crossing paths, and then halfway through the season they find out it’s all connected to what happened in the past.”
He concluded: “We liked this framing device, but we wanted to say something completely new and fresh. It’s a nice balancing act of keeping the familiarity of the Goosebumps TV series going while doing it as an anthology.”
Goose bumps currently streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.
