It Lives Inside’s Megan Suri Shares Scariest On-Set Moments

You know a horror film is legit when spooky stuff occurs on set — and that was positively the case with It Lives Inside.

Megan Suri, who performs the movie’s primary character, mentioned that issues as soon as obtained so scary her costar Betty Gabriel had hassle sleeping. “On the first day when Betty was filming in the mirror scene toward the end, the mirror cracked,” Suri, 24, solely informed Us Weekly forward of the film’s launch. “It was a set mirror and it cracked. We were filming this in a church, mind you. In a church! It cracked.”

The following day, a hearth broke out close to the varsity the place the forged was filming. Because the quantity seven performs a distinguished position within the film, Suri briefly puzzled whether or not 5 extra bizarre issues would occur, however fortuitously the drama stopped with the fireplace.

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While Suri remembers these two experiences as “really creepy,” she in any other case had a blast making It Lives Inside, which hits theaters on Friday, September 22. Written and directed by Bishal Dutta, the film follows Sam (Suri), an Indian American highschool pupil who struggles to embrace her household’s heritage. When her greatest pal is possessed by a demon, although, Sam should look to her mom for assist — and embrace the components of herself she’d been making an attempt to cover.

“I felt very connected to Sam,” defined Suri, who was born in California however spent two and a half years dwelling in India. “I remember coming back and having to assimilate and having to unlearn some things that I had learned and having to just sort of fit in.”

Suri didn’t should cope with demonic possession throughout her personal highschool years, however she might relate to the emotions of self-consciousness Sam struggles with as she will get prepared for faculty. “I’m still dealing with it now, and I don’t think it ever really goes away until you just work on it,” she informed Us. “Am I going to be successful? Am I going to achieve the things that I’ve set for myself? Am I going to pass this chemistry test? (And I did not.) If I could go back to my younger self, I think I would just tell her to relax. It’s not that deep, and I promise no one’s going to remember or care. It’s not going to be relevant. Just live your life. Enjoy it. I’m trying to tell myself that today, every day.”

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It Lives Inside — which acquired an interim settlement from SAG-AFTRA in the course of the strike — is Suri’s first true horror position. Never Have I Ever followers might acknowledge her as Devi’s frenemy Aneesa, however she’s a longtime fan of much less bubbly fare. Her love affair with all issues spooky started when she noticed Jeepers Creepers on the tender age of 6. “I shouldn’t have been watching that at 6 years old, but we did,” she mentioned. “I would stand in the hallway and just whisper the ‘Jeepers Creepers’ song. … I was a weird kid. Still am!”

More not too long ago, Suri discovered herself frightened by Paranormal Activity and the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s It. The latter she noticed at 18, however she was nonetheless scared witless. “The only way that I was able to fall asleep was I told myself that It only gets children, and I’m 18 years old so he won’t get me,” she recalled with fun. “‘I’m an adult legally,’ and that’s legitimately how I was able to rock myself to sleep.”

Suri, a self-described adrenaline junkie, loves horror for the scares, in fact, however she additionally appreciates the way in which it’s capable of discover weightier themes, as It Lives Inside does. “Horror is such an underrated genre in the sense that everyone thinks that it’s not a genre to be taken seriously,” she defined. “But I think that the beauty of horror is that it’s an opportunity to explore very deep and very real concepts, but make them entertaining in a way that sticks with you … that you remember for a very long time.”

It Lives Inside premieres in theaters on Friday, September 22.