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Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen works with a small ensemble of actors for most of the show’s run; however, Episode 4 dips back into the past for a horrific flashback story that helps explain why main character Rachel (Camila Morrone) has doom and darkness always hanging over her. Turns out, it was was heraditary.
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(SPOILERS) In Episode 4, “The Witness”, Rachel has been abducted by her own father, Jay (Josh Hamilton) who snatches her away from her fiancee’s creepy family of rich elitists. Jay has Rachel watch a movie of his wedding day with her mother, Alexandra, who is played by none other than Victoria Pedretti, best known for Netflix’s horror-dramas The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, as well as serial killer drams You.
Like Rachel, Alexandra experienced a pervasive sense of dread and doom leading up to her wedding day; that night, while happily dancing as newlyweds in their hotel room, Jay witnesses Alexandra suddenly start bleeding from all over her face, collapsing dead onto the floor. Since Alexandra was due to give birth soon, Jay had to cut Rachel from the womb himself – a dark and traumatic start to Rachel’s life.
That’s not the only role the Pedretti has in the show: In Episode 1, Rachel and her fiancee Nicky (Adam DiMarco) are driving to his family’s home, listening to a true crime podcast on the way. That podcast is narrated by Pedretti, as one of many horror Easter eggs that Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen showrunner Haley Z Boston buried into the show.
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Speaking to Radio Times, Boston explained why she tapped Pedretti, in particular, for this role: “I’m a huge fan of her, and I think a lot of of horror fans are. She’s so brilliant, so great in this genre – the way she captures fear, and she’s very good at externalising these very internal emotions. I was surprised that she agreed to do it, and she really elevated that character.”
In fact, originally the flashback to Jay and Alexandra was only going to be a short sequence; however, Pedretti and actor Logan Miller (who plays the younger Jay) were so good at the roles that Boston decided to reformat the entire episode to give them more screen time:
“Victoria and Logan just did an incredible job and allowed me to to be able to structure the episode with, I think, 15 minutes of just their story. That’s not how the script was written. It was supposed to cut back to Rachel, and because their performances were so strong, we were able to structure the episode that way.”
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