Joseph Quinn spent a lot of his Stranger Things time either battling or running away from monsters, which turned into perfect practice for A Quiet Place: Day One.
The horror prequel sees Quinn play Eric who teams up with Sam (Lupita Nyong'o) – and her cat Frodo – to try to survive in New York City when the alien invasion hits and they quickly learn that noise is deadly.
Talking to Digital Spy, Nyong'o said she forgot "how much energy it takes to act scared all day", having not starred in a horror movie for five years.
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But for Quinn, it was fresh in his mind from Stranger Things. "That's a skillset I picked up maybe from a previous job. I was able to apply it on this one," he noted, adding that they didn't just have to imagine the aliens.
"There was a bit of a reliance on our imaginations, and then there was also some pretty expert stilt work," he recalled. "Which was more disturbing than terrifying, but you could channel that."
Nyong'o joked that writer/director Michael Sarnoski "annoyed" her co-star by making "creature sounds" into a microphone behind the camera.
"It didn't really annoy me, it was just quite funny. He'd just go, 'And grrrr'," Quinn clarified.
Given that it's set at the start of the invasion, which we briefly saw at the beginning of A Quiet Place Part II, we can expect Day One to have more aliens than previous movies.
But that's not the only change from before.
"I suppose the previous two films have been quite contained in terms of where they're set, and obviously setting it in New York blows that wide open," Quinn teased.
"I think fans can expect to see the world that they're familiar with, just on a much larger scale and a lot quieter."
Bring it on.
A Quiet Place: Day One is released in UK cinemas on June 27 and in US cinemas on June 28.
Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
