{"id":493133,"date":"2026-06-10T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493133\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:22:10","slug":"something-very-bad-is-going-to-happen-camila-morrone-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/493133\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen: Camila Morrone Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t[This story contains spoilers for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

\n\tSomething Very Bad Is Going to Happen may have tested Camila Morrone<\/a>\u2019s hopeless romanticism to the nth degree, but she still believes in the concept of soulmates, albeit with a few caveats.<\/p>\n

\n\tCreated by Haley Z. Boston, Something Very Bad is a heightened exploration of the angst involved in choosing the right partner. The eight-episode Netflix horror series chronicles the five days leading up to the impending nuptials between Rachel Harkin (Morrone) and Nicky Cunningham (Adam DiMarco) at the latter\u2019s remote family lodge in upstate New York. From overzealous in-laws-to-be to an ancient family curse, Rachel eventually learns the hard way that Nicky is not the one. But she still exits stage left with a sense of optimism in who and what lies ahead for her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Morrone, the notion of soulmates is more nuanced and pragmatic than the stereotypical version that pop culture often presents, but she continues to keep an open mind.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think soulmates can exist, but everything requires work, luck and timing,\u201d Morrone tells The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cI definitely don\u2019t have googly eyes disillusion when it comes to, There\u2019s one person meant for you until the day you die. It\u2019s guaranteed, and it\u2019s just a matter of time till you find that person. I like believing that, but as a child of divorced parents, I\u2019m also a realist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMorrone\u2019s go-for-broke performance as Rachel Harkin is the latest addition to the growing list of awards-worthy performances in the horror genre. From James McAvoy (Split) and Toni Collette (Hereditary) to Lupita Nyong\u2019o (Us) and Mia Goth (Pearl), the majority of these highly committed and incredibly challenging roles have gone unrecognized. Exceptions are few and far between, be it Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins\u2019 Oscars for Silence of the Lambs (1991) or Kathy Bates and Natalie Portman\u2019s respective little gold men for Misery (1990) and Black Swan (2010).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Morrone believes the script has started to flip in regard to the awards potential of horror-based performances. Weapons\u2019 Amy Madigan and Sinners\u2019 Michael B. Jordan both won Oscars this year, and Inde Navarrette\u2019s bravura turn in Obsession is the talk of the town currently.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s so cool that we\u2019re opening up awards for this genre that requires really gut-wrenching and often crippling performances. Something has changed the tide in a good way these last few years,\u201d Morrone says. \u201cThere\u2019s just a lot more diversity within the genre now, and people are recognizing that these performances are really hard to pull off.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, during an FYC conversation with THR, Morrone also discusses the great lengths she went to bring Rachel to life across a grueling and bloody five-month shoot in Canada\u2019s wintry season.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLet\u2019s get to the heart of what Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is truly asking: Is one\u2019s fondness for cinnamon gum the ultimate red flag in a relationship?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t(Laughs.) Not to me because I love cinnamon gum! So I guess I\u2019m the serial killer in the relationship because I\u2019m all about cinnamon gum.<\/p>\n

\n\tNicky (Adam DiMarco) was representing your community then.<\/p>\n

\n\tFunnily enough, I actually relate more to Nicky more than I do Rachel. I\u2019m a lot more of a hopeless romantic and an optimist. I\u2019m maybe a bit naive. I have a Golden Retriever energy to me, so I\u2019m much more Nicky than I am Rachel.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCamila Morrone as Rachel Harkin in Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I first learned that you were the lead of Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, I thought it was a logical progression from your supporting roles on Daisy Jones & the Six and The Night Manager season two. You\u2019ve led a few indies over the years, but given that Something Very Bad is a high-profile project for Netflix, do you consider it to be your most prominent lead role?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI did a [2019] film called Mickey and the Bear, which was my first lead in a feature. I did a co-lead for Never Goin\u2019 Back, an A24 Comedy. Then I was the lead of a film called Gonzo Girl with Willem Dafoe, which was directed by Patricia Arquette. That\u2019s going to come out very soon. So it didn\u2019t feel like the first time leading a project, but it definitely was the first time that I felt this kind of pressure and responsibility. The material was so challenging, but being a TV show, it\u2019s a lot more commitment at eight times the length of a feature. So I was very much spearheading and heading this family\/relationship drama, and I had to have the audience root for my character from the pilot to the finale. This specific story doesn\u2019t work unless the audience believes Rachel and is rooting for Rachel. So being the lead of a horror TV series was singular in that I felt a pressure I had never felt before.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Rachel and Nicky travel to a remote part of upstate New York to meet his creepy-at-first family, Rachel\u2019s pot-smoking habit is established very early. Thus, she\u2019s paranoid. That leads her to wrongfully conclude that the Cunninghams were trying to kill her. How much did that mistake affect your ability to trust her judgment going forward?<\/p>\n

\n\tI still believed her the rest of the way because the circumstances were so unique. Had those things happened to me, Cami, I would also believe that the family was trying to sacrifice me. They were all acting bizarre, and she had a bad yet familiar feeling from her visions and memories of this place. We had to have a reliable narrator. There\u2019s moments where the audience does question her, but Rachel is ultimately a reliable narrator in the story, albeit the most paranoid and dysfunctional one. Everything that she sees and experiences is actually happening to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe feminist part of me loves that she\u2019s vindicated in the end and that she was right the whole time. Ever since she was little, she\u2019s had this awful looming feeling of her history and what happened to her mother. And episode four\u2019s backstory basically validates her entire childhood and a life full of paranoia, which is very satisfying.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAdam DiMarco as Nicky Cunningham, Camila Morrone as Rachel Harkin in Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen you\u2019re number one on the call sheet, you set the tone for the cast and the crew. Who did you model your leadership style after?<\/p>\n

\n\tI had just come off of working with Tom Hiddleston [on The Night Manager season two], and I have to give him his props because that man is such a professional. He is the most hardworking and the most prepared person on set, and he has the best attitude with the least amount of complaining. He\u2019s the first person in, last person out. I saw how Tom carried himself and the show emotionally through those six months of filming, and he had very challenging work on that series in the way that I did on Something Very Bad. So I was really inspired by how he works, especially with this being my first time as number one on a call sheet with a big ensemble. You try not to think of yourself in that way, but the truth is that there was an extra pressure for me to keep everyone\u2019s spirits up and maintain the focus.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo me, Something Very Bad dismantles the clich\u00e9d idea of a soulmate, specifically that there\u2019s one magical person out there who can provide a permanent honeymoon phase. The show illustrates how we embellish stories so that we can tell ourselves and those around us that we\u2019ve achieved a fairytale romance. In actuality, there are no shortcuts to a great relationship. It takes work. How similar or dissimilar do you read the show\u2019s commentary on soulmates?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI think the show leaves it ambiguous. It\u2019s up for the viewer to identify with either believing in soulmates or not believing in soulmates. The ending shows cases of both soulmates being real and also soulmates not being real. Nicky and Rachel are not soulmates in this case, at least not to Rachel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut I do have a less romanticized point of view than the clich\u00e9d idea of soulmates. I think soulmates can exist, but everything requires work, luck and timing. I definitely don\u2019t have googly eyes disillusion when it comes to, There\u2019s one person meant for you until the day you die. It\u2019s guaranteed, and it\u2019s just a matter of time till you find that person. I like believing that, but as a child of divorced parents, I\u2019m also a realist. I still have a wide point of view on love. I like to believe that there is a soulmate for anyone who wants it, but anything great in life requires great sacrifice and a great amount of work.<\/p>\n

\n\tRachel\u2019s potential brother and sister-in-law, Nell (Karla Crome) and Jules (Jeff Wilbusch), survive the curse, and while that implies that they\u2019re soulmates, they\u2019re not soulmates in the classical sense. They bicker and argue all the time, but they\u2019re brutally honest with each other in a way that the other doomed couples weren\u2019t. That was their advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, that\u2019s not a \u201csoulmate,\u201d that\u2019s just their version of it. What works for one couple might not work for another couple. That\u2019s what\u2019s so great about the show is that it poses all these questions, and then you finish the finale, going, \u201cGod, I don\u2019t know who I\u2019m rooting for. I don\u2019t know what I believe in anymore. Do I really believe in the norms and traditions?\u201d I like a show that leaves you evaluating your whole life and also questioning the things that you thought you knew with certainty before.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCamila Morrone as Rachel in Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\tWhether it\u2019s the Emmys or the Oscars, horror has generally been underrepresented. There are exceptions, of course, but it\u2019s definitely a tougher hill to climb. Why do you think that is?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPerhaps there\u2019s a clich\u00e9 around horror, specifically slasher-horror. Not everyone is attracted to blood and guts. I was not attracted to those kinds of films before I started working in the horror genre on this show, but I would encourage those people to explore the many different types of horror: horror-thriller, psychological horror, emotional horror, relationship horror, family horror. There are so many subgenres within the genre, and there is something for everyone. You just have to find what your taste is. I love Black Swan, and Natalie\u2019s performance was very much a part of a psychological thriller\/horror.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat other horror films have you gravitated toward?<\/p>\n

\n\tI remember being very moved by Hereditary and Midsommar. I really wanted the Florence Pugh role in Midsommar. I sent in a couple auditions, and that was the first time that I had read a horror script that I was really attracted to. I was one of those very sensitive kids. If I watched a horror movie at a sleepover, it would soak into my brain and my bones. I would dream about it and have nightmares about it forever. So I really only started watching horror in preparation for this.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHaley [Z. Boston], our showrunner, made me a big list with a lot of different films. It ranged from Birth with Nicole Kidman to The Celebration, which is a family drama. Funny Games was another one that\u2019s just cutthroat, brutal horror. There was the creepy and bizarre Dutch film, Spoorloos, aka The Vanishing. Then there were classics that I hadn\u2019t seen like Carrie, Rosemary\u2019s Baby and Possession.<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, between Michael B. Jordan and Amy Madigan\u2019s Oscars for Sinners and Weapons, hopefully the tide is turning.<\/p>\n

\n\tYes, and they\u2019re now making a Weapons prequel about [Madigan\u2019s] character. It\u2019s so cool that we\u2019re opening up awards for this genre that requires really gut-wrenching and often crippling performances. Something has changed the tide in a good way these last few years. Look at what\u2019s happening now with Obsession. I also went to see Backrooms last night. There\u2019s just a lot more diversity within the genre now, and people are recognizing that these performances are really hard to pull off. Making horror is also just as difficult, especially sustaining it through an eight-hour TV show. Haley says, \u201cOnce you expose the scary thing, then it\u2019s not scary anymore.\u201d So making people feel something for eight consecutive hours is an art in itself.<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t want to sound like I\u2019m devaluing your Emmy-nominated and heartbreaking role on Daisy, but I would think that Rachel from Something Very Bad has a much higher degree of difficulty, physically, emotionally and mentally. The places you have to go in the horror genre should count for something.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, thank you for saying that because that tells me that I\u2019m growing in my craft as an artist. I\u2019m interested in the more challenging roles. Every time I pick a project, I ask myself, Is this a real challenge for me? Am I really scared to do it? Am I terrified of failing at it? And if the answer is yes, then I have to do the job. I only want my career to be stepping stones of more challenging and complex roles that feel further from me. Whether it\u2019s horror or comedy or sci-fi or drama like Hamnet, I really aspire to have a filmography to where I can look back when I\u2019m older and feel like I challenged myself in all the genres.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s why Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is by far the most challenging experience of my career. Like you said, to stay in Rachel\u2019s headspace from episode one to episode eight, with all the blood and tears, was truly exhausting. It was five months of shooting including exteriors and night shoots in a Canadian winter. I\u2019ve never felt like an athlete in the way that I felt like an athlete doing this. Every single episode I knew I was climbing a mini-Mount Everest. I also had to pace myself physically. If I went too hard in episode one, the audience would have nowhere new to go by episode eight, and I would have no gas left in the tank. So it was a very methodical balance of giving it my all for 16 hours, and then going home to wake up a few hours later so I could do it all over again.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCamila Morrone as Rachel Harkin in Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\tCould you fall asleep with ease? Or were you wired from the work?<\/p>\n

\n\tI definitely took sleeping pills on this job, for sure. It was super hard for me to come down. As a cast, our circadian rhythm was so rocked. I didn\u2019t realize that you shoot horror mainly at night, so most days would have a 6 PM call time till 6 AM. It got weird, delusional and eerie. Even if you laugh it off and think it\u2019s not seeping into your blood and your bones, the adrenaline stays with you once you\u2019re at home in a dark room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSomething Very Bad is a very superstitious show, so hopefully Ted Levine is your good luck charm this awards season. He co-starred opposite Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins when they became two of the exceptions to win Oscars for a horror movie in Silence of the Lambs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWe need Ted Levine\u2019s good luck. I definitely wouldn\u2019t mind some of his magic.<\/p>\n

\n\tDo you know if the name Rachel had anything to do with Anne Hathaway\u2019s Oscar-nominated role\/character from Rachel Getting Married? Jonathan Demme directed Rachel Getting Married and Silence of the Lambs, so I wondered if Haley Z. Boston was working in some layered connections.<\/p>\n

\n\tI highly doubt it, but you never know with HZB. She\u2019s got a lot of tricks up her sleeve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tRachel and Nicky potentially earned bad luck through a number of ways. He didn\u2019t hold his breath through a tunnel; Rachel then made eye contact with the taxidermy dogs. There\u2019s also the moment when Portia broke the mirror during Rachel\u2019s first dress fitting. And most of all, Rachel and Nicky not only saw each other on their wedding day, but they had sex before their wedding. How much do you buy into superstition?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tGrowing up in a Latin household, it\u2019s in my blood to be superstitious. Ours are a little different. My mom always raised me with the classics: You can\u2019t open an umbrella inside; you can\u2019t put your purse on the floor or you\u2019ll lose money; you can\u2019t pass salt hand to hand. No hats on the bed was another one. And every time you pass a cemetery or a grave, you have to touch your left boob and make the devil\u2019s sign with your fingers and bite your tongue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI can\u2019t say I\u2019ve heard that one.<\/p>\n

\n\t(Laughs.) Yeah, they\u2019re very specific. I don\u2019t know what each one symbolizes, but my mom instilled such a fear in me that I just have to follow them.<\/p>\n

\n\tOverall, what scene gave you the most anxiety going into it?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tProbably the oners in episode seven. They were just hard to film and get right. We sometimes did 25 takes, and it was very frustrating. If I felt like all the technical things went right, I didn\u2019t feel like my performance was right. Or, when my performance felt right, we\u2019d have to start over because something went wrong in the background or it wasn\u2019t where it needed to be. So those days of running through the house with an amputated toe were really exhausting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso, when I was running through the forest and finding the effigy in episode two, it was negative 11 degrees during night shoots in Northern Canada. I had these tires on my boots to keep me from falling, but I still kept falling while doing stunt work at 4 AM in the freezing cold. I decided to wear a skirt with combat boots in the pilot and second episode, and I later regretted that during my exteriors, because I had to wear about six layers of warmth underneath it all. So I definitely got traumatized by shooting in the winter, but all of those difficult elements made the job more rewarding when it hooked the audience. That\u2019s the best gift on earth. It feels like Christmas<\/p>\n

\n\tThe champagne concoction that was highlighted by Rachel\u2019s amputated toe, did anyone on the crew opt to consume it since you\/Rachel did not?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThey haven\u2019t come forward with it yet, and I think that they should.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tGus Birney as Portia, Karla Crome as Nell, Camila Morrone as Rachel Harkin, Ted Levine as Boris, Adam DiMarco as Nicky Cunningham, Jeff Wilbusch as Jules, Zlatko Buric\u0301 in Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen she finally rejects Nicky\u2019s attempt to restart the wedding, his bloodline starts dying in the reception room. She then approaches the Witness (Zlatko Buric ) and says, \u201cThis is what you meant?\u201d What did she think was going to happen? Did she think it would affect future Cunningham weddings?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI believe she didn\u2019t understand the gravity of the blood and the fact that it comes out of everyone at the same time. She didn\u2019t realize the immediacy of it and just how many people would die from not in fact being soulmates. She was so in survival mode, and she had no reference point as to what would happen if it all went wrong. When it does, she\u2019s like, \u201cThis is what you meant? Hundreds of people are bleeding and screaming in agony and asking for my help, and I can\u2019t help anyone.\u201d I don\u2019t think she had any way to understand the gravity of what would happen.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat do you think has the better odds of a season two: Something Very Bad or Daisy?<\/p>\n

\n\tRight now, Something Very Bad, but I don\u2019t know what the storyline would be. Would it follow a different couple? Would it follow Rachel\u2019s life as a witness? I just don\u2019t know where\u00a0 it would go.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s probably too obvious, but waiting a decade and allowing you and Adam DiMarco to age would certainly serve a season about Jude Cunningham\u2019s wedding. You could then flash to the missing time in between as needed.<\/p>\n

\n\tI think it\u2019d be a great choice. We did that with The Night Manager. It came back ten years later, and it worked. So why not?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYour Night Manager and Something Very Bad characters both made big decisions that led to bloodbaths.<\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, I guess I like to play women with an impact.<\/p>\n

\n\tIs there any clarity yet regarding you and The Night Manager season three?<\/p>\n

\n\tOh, none. If you hear anything, please tell me.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019ve already reunited with Netflix for the upcoming Age of Innocence series. You were shooting it while promoting Something Very Bad. It must be difficult to rewind your headspace to a year earlier when you\u2019re completely consumed by the current project you\u2019re shooting.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor sure, but it\u2019s champagne problems. There were so many years where I didn\u2019t work as an actor, and all I wanted was that feeling of being overwhelmed and having to balance multiple things at once.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I was shooting The Night Manager and working on my Colombian dialect to play a Colombian arms dealer named Roxana, I was auditioning, chemistry-reading and call-backing on the weekends for Something Very Bad. I was trying to morph myself into Rachel, who\u2019s the polar opposite of Roxana. So I went from a Colombian arms dealer to an introverted, pot-smoking, paranoid girl. Then I pivoted to play the Countess Ellen Olenska from a classic piece of literature in the 1870s\u2019 Gilded Age.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe common thread between all these characters is that they\u2019re just badass women. They\u2019re very strong and strong-willed. All the female characters I\u2019ve ever played come out on top and win. I just love playing that.<\/p>\n

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