Joseph Quinn & Lupita Nyong'o A Quiet Place: Day One Interview

Starring in the prequel to John Krasinski's massive horror franchise, A Quiet Place: Day One, and trying to survive enormous deadly creatures sounds like a huge undertaking as it is. What if you had to lead this apocalyptic journey while simultaneously making sure your diva castmate was happy and not running off-set between takes? That's exactly what Academy Award-winner Lupita Nyong'o and Stranger Things breakout Joseph Quinn dealt with throughout filming Michael Sarnoski's Quiet Place takeover.

From the director of Pig, Day One goes back to the very beginning of Krasinski's now-trilogy, nearly 500 days earlier, before Earth was invaded by sightless extraterrestrials. This movie introduces Samira (played by Nyong'o) and Eric (Quinn), who find themselves in the middle of the first wave in New York City before our planet fell silent. The movie also stars Djimon Hounsou, reprising his role from A Quiet Place Part II, and Hereditary's Alex Wolff.

During this interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub, Nyong'o and Quinn reveal what it was actually like on the set working opposite cats. In Day One, Samira's companion is a cat, and as everything falls into chaos, this furry friend finds itself in a number of hairy situations with its human, not unlike its 1979 genre peer, Jonesy, in Ridley Scott's Alien. They talk about the challenges of shooting with a cat on and off a leash, how certain scenes required safety measures — for the cat, not them — and why "there were very many scenes that were a pain in the ass."

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