How Stranger Things Helped Joseph Quinn in A Quiet Place: Day One

Joseph Quinn spent much of Stranger Things either fighting or running from monsters, which turned into perfect practice for A Quiet Place: Day One.

The horror prequel sees Quinn and Eric team 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.

Talk with The digital spyNyong’o said she had forgotten “how much energy it takes to act scared all day”, not having been in a horror film for five years.

But for Quinn, it was fresh in his mind from Stranger Things. “That’s a skill set I picked up maybe from a previous job. We were able to apply this one,” he noted, adding that he doesn’t just have to imagine the aliens.

“There was a bit of trust in our imaginations and then there was also quite expert stylus work,” he recalled. “Which was more disturbing than scary, but you could channel that.”

Nyong’o joked that writer/director Michael Sarnoski “annoyed” her co-star by making “creature noises” into a microphone behind the camera.

“It didn’t really annoy me, it was just quite funny. He said, ‘And grrrr,'” Quinn clarified.

Given that it’s set at the beginning of the invasion, which we saw briefly at the beginning of A Quiet Place Part II, we can expect Day One to have more aliens than the previous films.

But that’s not the only change from before.

“I suppose the previous two movies were pretty limited in terms of where they’re set, and obviously being set in New York is so open,” Quinn teased.

“I think fans can expect to see the world they’re familiar with, just on a much larger scale and much quieter.”

Bring it.

A Quiet Place: Day One opens in UK cinemas on June 27 and in US cinemas on June 28.

You might also like it