{"id":345018,"date":"2026-09-12T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345018\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:40:10","slug":"tiff-interview-river-cast-discuss-practical-effects-scream-queens-and-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345018\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF Interview: \u201cRiver\u201d Cast discuss practical effects, scream queens, and horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Sept. 12, 2026 7:01 AM PT                           <\/p>\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<p>Jane Levy, Jessica Rothe, Max Mattern, Joshua Giuliano and Dane DiLiegro sit down in the Los Angeles Times Studio at RBC House to discuss their new horror film. The team breaks down why horror is thriving with modern audiences, what it means to be celebrated as \u201cscream queens,\u201d the physical preparation behind non-verbal roles, balancing motherhood with intense film shoots and the choice to film on real locations at night.<\/p>\n<p>             <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Mark Olsen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/mark-olsen\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789224010_615_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Mark Olsen writes about all kinds of movies for the Los Angeles Times as both a feature writer and reviewer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Lara Hochuli is the senior editor on the Los Angeles Times\u2019 Editorial Video team. In a 15-year career, Hochuli has helped bring more than one newsroom into the modern age, including a decade at the San Diego Union-Tribune and a previous stint at The Times with \u201cLA Times Today.\u201d Her work has been recognized with a number of acknowledgments from the Society of Professional Journalists, a handful of San Diego Press Club accolades, and four Emmy Awards. <\/p>\n<p>         <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Mark E. Potts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/mark-potts\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789224010_946_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Mark E. Potts is a former senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master\u2019s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 12, 2026 7:01 AM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Jane Levy, Jessica Rothe, Max Mattern,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[129320,129325,5922,129318,63796,129323,9,24,1641,63,129324,129319,129326,122,124,123,18632,11678,129322,129321,1115],"class_list":["post-345018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-cast","tag-enid","tag-horror","tag-lara-hochuli","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mark-e-potts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-night","tag-nyc","tag-okla","tag-practical-effect","tag-professional-journalists","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-river","tag-scream-queen","tag-senior-editor","tag-tiff-interview","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}