Anyone who loves a good fairytale knows the spooky tale of Hansel and Gretel has been highly sanitized from its gruesome beginnings over the last few years, but director Osgood Perkins's Gretel & Hansel is a delightfully haunting return to the story's origins. In an exclusive clip from behind the scenes of the upcoming horror film, Perkins and star Sophia Lillis reveal how a shift in the narrative crafted a new way to portray the classic tale, and why viewers will be kept on the edge of their seats.
"When I first read this script, I could definitely see that this would be a special take on this story," Lillis says in the clip. Like in the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Lillis plays Gretel, who leads her younger brother (Samuel Leakey) into the woods in search of food and work when the pair become desperate. Though retellings of the...
"When I first read this script, I could definitely see that this would be a special take on this story," Lillis says in the clip. Like in the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Lillis plays Gretel, who leads her younger brother (Samuel Leakey) into the woods in search of food and work when the pair become desperate. Though retellings of the...
- 1/31/2020
- by Mekishana Pierre
- Popsugar.com
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