Asjha Cooper, Dale Whibley, Jesse LaTourette, and Diego Josef star in Netflix's There's Someone Inside Your House. The four comprise a group of high school friends who are targeted by a masked killer who wears the faces of his victims while he's killing them. Cooper stars as Alex Crips, with Josef as Rodrigo, LaTourette as Darby, and Whibley as Zach. Along with Sydney Park's Makani, the group of friends must not only face down the deranged killer, but they also must protect their darkest secrets as the masked murderer targets people with something to hide.
Screen Rant sat down with Cooper, Whibley, LaTourette, and Josef to discuss what it was like bringing the slasher to life and how intense of a shoot it was. There's Someone Inside Your House hits Netflix October 6.
WARNING: This interview contains spoilers for There's Someone Inside Your House.
Screen Rant: Diego, you get one of the most physically intensive kills in the movie. You're running through the house, crawling through the vents, stuff like that. Did you have to do anything to prepare for that?
Diego Josef: Honstly, just doing it got me into it. There was a lot of running and I was already out breath. I don’t have the best endurance, so that helped. Crawling through the vents was very bruising and painful so it was all very immersive so I kind of just threw myself into it.
Asjha Cooper: He was on the treadmill every day.
Dale Whibley: Crawling through vents at home.
Jesse, it was great to see some non-binary representation in the film on top of the amazingly diverse cast. What was it like to bring the character of Darby to the screen, especially because their gender fluidity doesn't define them as a character, but it's still something that's present and important?
Jesse LaTourette: Obviously, it was really amazing. I remember getting the audition – I know the movie is a little bit different than the book. In the book Darby is trans. Which I hadn’t read before I got it. But I got the audition and Henry [Gayden] made the character genderfluid and I’m fluid and I had never seen an audition for a genderfluid character before so I was really excited to go in and then when I got it that was really cool.
Henry worked with GLAAAD, Netflix often asked me questions, so what you see onscreen is such a real, authentic, three-dimensional queer character which, as you probably know, we don’t get a lot. I felt really seen and I’m hoping that when this film comes out other people see it and they think, "This is real queer representation. What if I can get my representation out there?" So I’m really hoping that the film can inspire more people to write their own stories or reach out if they’re on a project and be like, "Actually, I have things I can bring this to the character if you want to hear my opinion."
Dale, you get the big reveal at the end. Did you think of any iconic horror villain monologues or was there anything you were referencing there?
Dale Whibley: Christian Bale in American Psycho was number one for me because I thought he just brought a sinister creepiness to all his speeches. That was huge for me. I wanted to scare people, I really wanted to scare people. I hope people were scared.
Asjha, you also have another horror movie coming out this month, Black As Night. What was it like to be in that horror mindset for so long as a performer? I'm sure it can be emotionally taxing running around pretending to be scared for your life all the time.
Asjha Cooper: No, but they're so different. Black As Night is a vampire film in New Orleans and this is a slasher/high school film. It was a very different mindset. Also, we filmed this three years ago - in 2019. It was so long ago. So luckily I wasn't in that fear-based mindset for years on end. But honestly, horror movies are fun to film so I was having a lot of fun for the last two years. Especially with a cast like this. It was so much fun.