00:07I read that there were 1,800 candidates for Carrie
00:10Tell us a little bit about that audition process
00:13Well, it was long for me
00:14I sent a self-tape in 2025 January
00:18And then a couple months went by
00:19And I sent another one in
00:21New tapes, like new scenes
00:22Like another month went by
00:24And I had a weird feeling
00:25That they were going to want to talk to me
00:27And I was right
00:28Because by the end of the week
00:29They were asking me to get on a work session
00:31I apparently did the right thing
00:33Because I did get it
00:34Nailed it
00:34What was your reaction?
00:35I was lost for words
00:37Mike called me
00:38He selfishly wanted to be the one
00:39To tell me that I got the role
00:41And he called me on April Fool's
00:43Which was funny
00:43He didn't realize
00:44Nobody realized
00:45I did
00:46I was like, what's happening?
00:47Our version of Carrie
00:48Is very much the antithesis
00:50Of the version you've seen before
00:51Carrie's always been
00:52Kind of a coiled ball
00:55Of trauma
00:57And anxiety
00:58Ours is open
01:00And curious
01:01And kind
01:02And earnest
01:02And really eager
01:03To be part of the world
01:04And Summer
01:05Managed to embody
01:06All of that
01:07Without feeling naive
01:09And that was an amazing
01:11Balance
01:12And was
01:13Once I saw her
01:15Perform it
01:15There was really nobody else
01:17For the role
01:17That character's been
01:18Performed as well as
01:20It'll ever be performed
01:20By Sissy Spacek
01:21You know, it's
01:22It's such an iconic performance
01:23There's no point
01:24In trying to follow
01:25For those footsteps
01:26So doing something new
01:27And different is important
01:28If we're gonna be doing this project
01:29To begin with
01:30But the other thing is
01:31I think the world
01:32Has changed so much
01:33In the half century
01:34Since the book was written
01:35And since she played that part
01:36This really was a story
01:38About kind of
01:39The contemporary effects
01:41Of cruelty
01:42Which is something I think
01:43Has shaped our world
01:45Especially in the last decade
01:48More than I ever could have imagined
01:49Certainly more than
01:50Steven King or Brian De Palma
01:51Could have contemplated
01:52Hi
01:53That's a really nice dress
01:55Thanks
01:56I made it
01:57Sure did
01:58Didn't you
01:59I read that
02:00Steven King originally
02:00Didn't want another adaptation
02:01To be made
02:02And you convinced him
02:03To do that
02:03How do you convince
02:04Steven King to let you
02:05Make something
02:06Oh, well, no
02:06We both had kind of
02:07The same reaction
02:08It was
02:08When it was first
02:10Brought up to me
02:10I said
02:11Why
02:11You know
02:12It's a story
02:13That's been adapted
02:14Perfectly
02:1550 years ago
02:16And then adapted again
02:17And then adapted again
02:18But there's really
02:19Two kinds of adaptation
02:20And I've gotten to play
02:21With both in my career
02:22You know
02:22One is where you try
02:23To adapt something
02:24As faithfully as possible
02:25And protect it
02:26On its way to the screen
02:27But the other is
02:28What I got to do
02:29With The Haunting of Hill House
02:30And with The Fall of the House of Usher
02:31Where you take something apart
02:33And use those pieces
02:34To build something new
02:35And so I just showed
02:37Steve what I was thinking
02:38And had written out
02:39A map for the season
02:40And kind of talked about
02:42The different versions
02:43Of these characters
02:44A very different
02:44Carrie White
02:45Very different Margaret White
02:46Very different Chris Hargenson
02:47And he read through it
02:48And came back
02:48And said
02:49I love this
02:49We should do it
02:50But if he
02:51If he doesn't want to do it
02:52I'm never going to
02:54So it's
02:55It's
02:55It's pretty critical
02:56That he feel that way
02:57The worst part
02:59Is that I really
03:00Could have been your friend
03:02How do you approach
03:03Honoring that
03:04Original material
03:05That's been around
03:06For a really long time
03:07But also making a role
03:08Like Harry
03:08Your own
03:09Well
03:10I actually didn't
03:11Watch the original
03:12Or read the book
03:13Before filming
03:14And I asked Mike
03:15Once I got the part
03:16In our first call
03:17If he wanted me to
03:18Do my research
03:18And he said no
03:20So I got to just
03:21Continue creating
03:22My own version of her
03:23Which I mean
03:24It felt pretty natural
03:25The writing was so beautiful
03:27I connected to her
03:28From the scripts
03:29And so I just
03:30I stuck with that
03:31And I mean
03:32I've watched the film
03:33Now of course
03:33And I've read the book
03:34And it's incredible
03:35And it's bizarre
03:37Having filmed the whole show
03:38As a character
03:39And then seeing what she was
03:41How she started
03:42It's incredible
03:43I really wanted
03:44Teenagers in 2026
03:46To kind of see them
03:47In it
03:48But it's interesting
03:49Because as Summer plays Carrie
03:50She's kind of out of time
03:52Anyway
03:52She's never left her house
03:53So her style
03:55Is this amalgamation
03:56That comes from her parents
03:57Childhoods
03:58And decades of different
03:59Fashion and ideas
04:01So Carrie
04:02For me as a character
04:03Kind of steps out
04:03Of a time machine
04:04At the beginning
04:05Of the pilot anyway
04:07But we really thought
04:08It was important
04:09That if we're telling
04:10A story about
04:10What it means
04:11To be a high schooler
04:12Today
04:12It should feel like
04:13All I ever wanted
04:15Was to go to school
04:17Tell us about the blood tent
04:19Oh the Dexter tent
04:20Pretty regular tent
04:21It was white
04:22I don't know
04:23Kind of spacious
04:24A bubble wrap
04:25All over the floor
04:26Plastic to catch the blood
04:27That didn't land on me
04:28I wore goggles
04:29When they applied
04:30Like when they needed
04:31To like make it look
04:32How it was another day
04:34So it was like
04:3545 minutes of me
04:36Standing there
04:37With my goggles on
04:38So it didn't get in my eyes
04:39And I looked like a minion
04:40It was such good times
04:42And I
04:42I took a little time lapse
04:44I should have taken more
04:45But no
04:45Good memories in the blood tent
04:47You know
04:48Erre� Doo
04:50Oh the parking lot
04:51Seal
