1/3/2024 0 Comments Kate siegel![]() Yet, don’t think Siegel feels extraordinarily tormented leaving the set of a Mike Flanagan horror series every day. That’s what it feels like when you’re just hearing the static but none of the heartbeat’.” That’s what it feels like when the doctor is squinting at the screen. I hope that there are people who recognize that moment in Erin’s face, and they go, ‘Yes, that’s what it felt like. “As an actor, the first level is making yourself feel the emotion, and then the real artistry is making somebody else feel an authentic human emotion. Luckily for me, with my two children, it was always positive outcomes, but in order to play Erin, I had to open that door and go in there,” Siegel admitted. ![]() When you’re waiting to hear the heartbeat, when you are watching the technician stare at the screen, and you can’t see the screen. “There is a moment of absolute terror in every ultrasound when you are pregnant. To play the aftermath of that event, Greene pulled from her own experience as a mother and all of the fear and apprehension surrounding parenthood. Her baby literally disappears from her body. Siegel’s Erin Greene begins the series as a pregnant woman but faced with an unimaginable crisis. The series is set on an isolated island community where strange and deadly events begin to happen after the arrival of a mysterious priest (Hamish Linklater). ![]() Admittedly, the series takes an extremely dark view of religion, not faith itself but more in terms of religious fanaticism. Given the intensely religious text within Midnight Mass, it seems reasonable to assume that Flanagan, Siegel, and others perhaps wanted to explore deeper, unresolved feelings where religion is concerned. I like to think I see a lot of those conversations turn into Erin Greene.” To see how we can all come together and maybe not jump to conclusions. In our household, Mike is often the one with a more black and white point of view of the world, and I tend to be a little bit more moderate, a little bit more wanting to consider everybody’s point of view. I’m no longer drinking, but we had very different viewpoints. “During that time, Mike was sober, and I was still drinking. I was raised very culturally Jewish but also became an atheist as I grew up, and so it lent itself to very interesting and confusing dinnertime conversations,” Siegel explained. Mike grew up as an altar boy and a devout Catholic and has become an atheist. I’m just talking about random things we’ve been through at the time, sobriety and religion had been on both of our minds quite a bit. “There is a certain part of it that I think happens at the dinner table. Part of it stemmed from internal conversations with himself, but much of it comes from actual dinner table dialogue between the married couple. All of it lives within Flanagan’s Midnight Mass screenplay. The horror limited series partly succeeds because it’s so convincingly rooted in the broad spectrum of the human experience. Imagine the dinner table conversation between writer/director Mike Flanagan and his wife Kate Siegel that spawned Flanagan’s latest Netflix’s Midnight Mass. Download: ‘Midnight Mass’ Star Kate Siegel Explores Faith, Parenting Trauma Through Her Acclaimed Performance
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