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Interview · July 2013 · Montreal

Joey King

Actor Joey King (The Conjuring, Fargo) chats with Matt Schichter in Montreal.

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Episode #560 · Joey KingJuly 2013 · 00:07:50

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0:00Hey guys, I'm Joey King and you're watching MSN Exclusives. Right, it's 918. We're headed down into the cellar where the door is just opened on its own. You must decide that you want to communicate with us. What are you guys? Well, we've been called ghost hunters, paranormal researchers. But we prefer to be known simply as Ed and Lorraine Warren. There's someone here that would like to talk to you. There's something horrible happening in my house. Watching the movie last night, I realized the dog doesn't want to go into the house.

0:52There's a scene where the dog sends us something wrong with his house. Don't want to go in. Does the pig have psychic abilities? Would JJ know not to go into this house? Well, I have three dogs as well. So I know my dogs would probably like send something, especially like our little dog Charlie. He's a chihuahua. He's so smart. JJ, I don't know. It's hard to say. She's really smart. She would. I feel like she would know. I feel like she would have that ability to sense if something was wrong. Did she get along with the dogs? Yeah. Really? They're all like really good friends. Oh, that's interesting. I know. The big dog Dallas, she's a golden retriever. And JJ get along really well. They were like best friends. Does the pig act like a dog? Is it like? Oh, yeah. She barks. She barks. She barks. The pig barks. Yeah, because of the other dogs.

1:37And she sits like a dog. And she scratches her ears with her hind leg. Like a dog. I swear she does that. It's so weird. I'm just like, what are you doing? And like she like when the doorbell rings, she's like, oh, like she just tries to bark at the heart. It's so funny. OK, so this movie, no more pig talk. Let's talk about this film. All right. You have some great scenes. The one scene I love is when the demon, I don't think it's too much choice. In the human spirit. Something is pulling at your leg while you're sleeping. And I'm wondering how James directs a scene like that. Is he telling you like more knee? I need more knee? Or is there a wire pulling your leg? How does that work? You know, movie magic is always the key. But they put like a velcro thing on my leg, on my ankle. It was like green screen.

2:23And they pulled over that. Where do you find a motion for those scenes? Like there's some scenes where you're really terrified. Where do you as an actress, where do you go in to find those emotions? You go into if that's just actually happening to you. Can you imagine like being in your room, getting pulled by a ghost? And you just have to picture that something like that happening to you. And I mean like it wasn't ever scary filming that. Ever ever scary filming on set. But it was like you guys had to go there emotionally and picture something happening. Did you talk to Christine? I saw you a picture with you in her at the premiere. Or I don't know who's still around from that family. Yeah, all of them are alive. Alive and kicking. She came on set. Her and her sisters came to visit on set. And I got to talk to them all for a really long time. Christine, she was talking about some of the things that happened in the house. It was so crazy getting to hear everything from them.

3:10It's November 1st, 1971. I'm sitting here with Carolyn Perrin, who with her family has been experiencing supernatural conces. You're picking up anything in here, hun. There's something awful happened here, Ed. What is it? Yeah, I mean it's scary and stuff like to believe that kind of thing. But I've always believed in it. And but getting to hear from them like their story and like what happened to them was cray, cray. Cray, cray. I'm going to learn so much from you today. Yeah, cray, cray. Let's see what else came. Yes, what's another one. What's some slang? I hate when people like shorten things. Like I make fun of people and they do that. That's why I just did that. Oh, OK. It's like cray, cray when I say that I'm not being serious. When people say, oh my god, that's so perf. I'm just like, stop right there.

3:56That's enough right there. Lily Taylor, that possession scene is something else. No, it doesn't mean that. Were you on set that day to watch just to learn? Because that, I don't know how she did that. I was on set, you know, that when she's when I'm in the basement with her and she's trying to, you know, don't want to give too much away. Right. But I wasn't unfortunately on set for all of her possession scenes. I had already gone home by that point. I was finished filming. So I like left the day that they start. I went back home to California the day that they started filming those scenes. I was like, down. So it must have been cool to see the other day than when you saw it for the first time. I saw it for the first time back in January. I was at a screening with Mackenzie, Hayley, Shanley, Ron and my family. And it was crazy.

4:42I mean, and also Mackenzie's brother decided to do something mean to me. He came up behind me after the news over when I was talking to everyone. He goes like this behind my ear. I dropped to the floor. I swear. I was like, no, it was so funny. It was so frightening. Mackenzie's the one you're doing music videos with now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Mackenzie. We became really good friends on the set. I love that, I should say. To go with the theme. I love it. Fear of bees. What happened to you? Yeah, there it is. Okay. No question. Just leave that one alone. No, you cannot ask. I'm just so scared to be. I've knocked on wood. I've never been stung. I don't have any here. Don't worry. I wouldn't do that to you. That's good. James was saying that he's a wuss and he gets frightened easily in one of the interviews surrounding this film. It's like a bunch of wasps on set too.

5:27Like, great. Really? Yeah. How was that? It was so terrifying. I mean, it was so much more terrifying than the ghost. It was, we were filming a scene where we had to be in the car and so Shanley pulls up in the car and she gets out and like, you know, all of us are supposed to pile in and she goes there to wasp in the car. I'm just like, what? And she goes just getting the car. So I get in the car and I see this wasp like flying around. I was freaking out. I was like, oh my God. Oh my God. They say cut. I get out of the car. I'm like, there's a wasp in there. Is this a scene where you're supposed to look scared? Because that would only help. I would think. Well, the camera, good thing wasn't like on us. It was on there. But I mean, our mics were on. I'm like, it's so funny. I want to do something with you called five questions. Five quick questions. One word answers. Okay. Improver script.

6:13Script. Improver. I don't know. I don't know. Viner Instagram. Instagram. I see you. It's like, I like Vine. I don't like Instagram video, but I like Instagram. Okay. Clarifying. Yeah. True or false, watching a horror movie can burn up to 200 calories the same as walking for half an hour. Unknown. I don't know. Oh, you almost did my next one. It's true. Oh, no way. So you're giving people a workout when they come to cinema to watch this. This is great. I mean, like maybe I'll watch it like a billion times then. Just sit there and freak yourself out. Just sit there like this. You almost did it a lot. Can you do the worm with your eyebrows? Yes. Yes, I can. So ready? Amazing. Talent. Not many people can do that, you know.

6:59I can't. No. You're going. No. Yeah, I just moved my eyes. In one word, the conjuring. Chilling. There's a lady in a dirty night cone that I see in my dreams. She's standing in front of my mom's bed. Do you want to see him? Yeah. And the music stops. There's some in the mirror standing behind you.

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