The \u00c9cole secondaire Macdonald-Cartier Grade 8 student features throughout the movie as one of three ghosts \u2014 past victims of the movie\u2019s villain, The Grabber, played by Ethan Hawke.<\/p>\n
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\nA screenshot featuring local actor Chase B. Robertson, 12, playing the character of Spike, in a white shirt and bloodied face, from the trailer to Black Phone 2. Screenshot
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In real life, Hawke was far removed from his frightening character, Chase told Sudbury.com this weekend during a phone conversation alongside his mother, Chrystal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was always super kind to us and very nice and just a great guy,\u201d Chase said, adding that filming with him in the Greater Toronto Area and Huntsville was \u201ca really great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though Chase was humble about how much work the role took, Chrystal stepped in to clarify that it took two hours of hair and makeup every day Chase was on set to get ready.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of preparation just in terms of sitting in a chair for a couple of hours and not being able to eat properly when it was in place,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chase noted that it\u2019s at times difficult to recognize himself in the movie due to the prosthetics which obscure much of his face in gore, though his eyes and nose are still recognizable.<\/p>\n
While Chase said the role didn\u2019t take much preparation, Crystal stepped in to clarify, \u201cFor literally every scene he prepared with his acting teacher before we headed for Toronto.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nA screenshot from the trailer to Black Phone 2 features photographs of the Grabber\u2019s three young victims, including Spike, played by local actor Chase B. Robertson, at the right. Screenshot
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Similar to the 2021 movie Black Phone 2 is a sequel to, the young ghost victims of past murders appear throughout, often popping up out of nowhere.<\/p>\n
This took some fancy camera work and concise positioning on the part of Chase and the other actors, Chrystal said, adding that her son undertook \u201cA lot of blocking and preparing\u201d for these scenes.<\/p>\n
Chase took up acting a few years ago through That Creative Loft<\/a>, a local creative studio founded by instructor and actress Kelly Lamb<\/a> which offers acting, performance and media arts programming.<\/p>\n He took an interest after a friend started acting, got an agent and started earning himself acting credits<\/a>, of which Black Phone 2 is his first feature film.<\/p>\n Black Phone 2 filmed in the Greater Toronto Area between November and January, and Chase spent 22 days on set, driven to set by supportive family members.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a lot of travelling and a lot of juggling, and he really loves it, so between myself, my husband, my brother in law and my sister in law, there were a lot of taking turns in taking him to Toronto and on location in Huntsville,\u201d Chrystal said.<\/p>\n An easy highlight from the filming process was the stunts, Chase said, including one where he and two other ghost boys were harnessed 30 feet in the air and lowered from the ceiling on wires.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s super fun, cool, thrilling,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just cool to do stunts.\u201d<\/p>\n A bonus for family members driving him to set was witnessing the filming process, Chrystal said.<\/p>\n \u201cThey did some pretty gory scenes made with animatronics, it was not CGI so it was cool to see that process,\u201d she said. \u201cThey did as much practical work as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Having notched a life-changing and positive experience on Black Phone 2, Chase said he remains focused on maintaining an acting career, and would like the opportunity to work on a sitcom some day.<\/p>\n Black Phone 2 is currently screening at Imagine Cinemas downtown<\/a> and SilverCity Sudbury Cinemas<\/a> off of The Kingsway.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Tyler Clarke covers city hall and political affairs for Sudbury.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local face shows up throughout the horror movie Black Phone 2, which released in theatres on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,107997,75,337],"class_list":["post-225760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chase-b-robertsonblack-phone-2that-creative-loft","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}