“I’ve always loved horror but I really wanted to do one after the experience of watching Lupita and how absolutely magnificent she is in that movie,” said Moss. In a stroke of kismet, Moss had been hankering to revisit the horror genre after her experience working with Universal and Jordan Peele on the filmmaker’s sophomore outing, which was produced by Jason Blum and starred Lupita Nyong’o as a woman battling her shadow self. And I remember everyone at Universal was really excited about Lizzie because they had just done ‘Us’ with her.” “I realized that the whole movie rested on this one character’s shoulders,” he said. Upon finishing the script, Whannell quickly realized that the success of the film would hinge on its central performance. “That’s what really curdles your blood when you watch the movie.
“One of the things I liked the most about this movie is that it’s a real-life monster,” Moss said during a joint interview with Whannell earlier this month. Instead, he shifted the narrative focus from the titular antagonist to his intimate partner Cecilia Kass, a woman who is gaslighted to the brink of insanity, played by Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Elisabeth Moss. Not showing something is always the scariest thing.” “Once you put the monster in the spotlight, you demystify it.
“I think it’s really obvious that the way to make the Invisible Man scary is to not focus the film on him,” said Whannell. Wells novel and its 1933 film adaptation - and despite the character’s title billing - this invisible man is a distant secondary character. After his girlfriend manages to escape the glass prison they share together, he stages his own suicide just to continue to torment and control her under the cover of invisibility. Whannell conceived of the character as a wealthy scientist (played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen of “The Haunting of Hill House”) who is charming and controlling in equal measure.
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