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PS: Lila and Melody are sisters in the film. Did you two bond a lot behind the scenes to form that sibling relationship?
SY: [It was like] a fan fever dream nightmare that we were kind of all stuck in, especially Elsie and I just day after day being like, "OK, time to get covered in crap and cry all day together." There were a series of night shoots where we're running under the rain machine and it was 3:00 AM. It was almost Bulgarian winter at that point, and we're freezing and under the rain machine, just crying and running together. We just kept doing this bit over and over to keep each other laughing because I think we were both losing our minds. There's no way it was funny, whatever we were saying, but we were hysterical, just keeping each other afloat.
EF: A lot of the movie eventually was just the two of us on set after everyone else had kind of wrapped their stuff up and left us . . . We were doing night shoots and there were rain machines and we were covered in fake blood and fake crap — and maybe a little real blood and real crap. So, [we kept] each other sane.
PS: Was it exhausting to film those attack scenes?
SY: I did start working out with someone 'cause I was like, "I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this. I need to be doing crawls on the ground." And the reality is, I don't know if that helped at all. I don't think you can really prepare for it until you're in it.
EF: We were able to [film] in the order it happens, which was really helpful as an actor to not have already fully faced the trauma that you're trying to lead up into. We had some really excellent stunt coordinators who helped me with a lot of the big stuff and just a very communicative team.
PS: If there's another film, what do you think is going to happen next?
EF: My hope is, after all this stuff, [Lila] gets into group therapy and starts working on her mental health and does really good, supportive things for the community and reconnects with her parents or whatever. Then you're like, "Oh my god, this is so groundbreaking and beautiful." Then like 60 minutes in, Leatherface just busts through the door. I think that'd be ideal.
SY: With this franchise, there will always be a world for Leatherface to exist in some iteration. It would be cool to see what they do with Lila and Leatherface. I'm sure they can think of a million iterations of what he can do next.