Inside Camila Morrone’s On-Set Bond in Something Very Bad
Camila Morrone Reveals that Matcha Played a Vital Role in Her Connection with Adam DiMarco in Something Very Bad Is About to Occur (Exclusive)
Adam DiMarco and Camila Morrone immediately clicked when he stepped onto the set of *Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen*. Morrone, 28, and DiMarco, 35, play Rachel and Nicky, an engaged couple in the new Netflix horror series.
The show follows their five-day countdown to marriage, while Rachel slowly loses her grip on reality as she becomes increasingly paranoid about what might happen on her wedding day. Their first real meeting was on set — in the bedroom where their characters stay during wedding week, called the “love cave.”
Camila Morrone Reveals that Matcha Played a Vital Role in Her Connection with Adam DiMarco in Something Very Bad Is About to Occur (Exclusive)
Morrone told PEOPLE in a joint interview withDiMarco, “We went to meet in the love cave.
Weronika, our director, was waiting for us. I remember exactly what you were wearing.” She recalled, “You had a hat on. You were holding a matcha.” She said, “That’s when I was like, ‘I like you, because you drink matcha.'”
DiMarco responded, “Yeah, we’re big matcha heads.
” But they didn’t have time to talk much about the drink. Morrone said they “went straight into the blocking of the love-cave scenes.” She added, “We didn’t get to hang at all before. We got no warm-up time.”It was a challenge for them to jump right into filming, especially since their characters are in a long-term relationship.
DiMarco said, “It is sometimes tough jumping into being like, oh, this is a many-year relationship. Cami helped a lot with selling the body language, physical touch aspect of the relationship.” He explained, “She initiated holding my hand before going into the scene, and I was just kind of like, ‘Oh, you’re right. Oh, right, we’re fiancés.'”
Morrone added, “You’re trying to be respectful of another actor and I think you have to just kind of have that conversation really early on.It’s like, ‘OK, we have never met, but these people really love each other, and they’ve been together, and they’ve been intimate, and we have to now come in with that energy.'”
She also said, “But I think also on the first day of the meeting, we’re both being very trepidatious about each other.
” But despite the short turnaround time, Morrone said it “felt pretty natural” to dive into things with DiMarco. She agreed, saying, “We’re locked in.”
DiMarco also praised Morrone, calling her the “true lead of the show.”
He said, “It’s such a marathon and it’s such an undertaking to be the true lead, and you really nailed it. You’re so fun to watch.”
The show is described as “horror’s take on a woman becoming a wife,” similar to *Carrie*, which is “horror’s version of a girl becoming a woman,” and *Rosemary’s Baby*, which is “the horrific version of a woman becoming a mother.
” The synopsis continues, “Rachel is getting married in five days. Together with her fiancé, Nicky, she embarks on a road trip to his family’s vacation home, secluded in a snowy forest, for the intimate wedding ceremony of their dreams.
Which really would be so lovely, except … prone to superstition and paranoia, Rachel can’t shake the relentless feeling that something bad is going to happen. Her foreboding doubts, coupled with a series of eerie coincidences and dreadful surprises, force her to ask the question: What makes two people soulmates? And worse — what could be scarier than lifelong commitment to the wrong person?”
*Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen* is now streaming on Netflix.
