Goosebumps is all about nightmarish situations, but what terrified the cast when they were young?
I’m so serious, I’m so serious.
I was no older than four, and I just remember this booger monster in the Hudson River.
Jayden Bartels: I used to have a reoccurring nightmare about the guest room in my childhood home.
There was nothing creepy about the guest room.
It was like, literally, the room is decorated yellow and blue.
It’s so lively and happy.
And it was bad.
They did not do a good job.
I’m a big dreamer.
I sometimes lucid dream, and I feel like that’s also scary within itself.
Elijah M. Cooper: I just had the falling down the never-ending stairs.
Stony Blyden: You guys ever have sleep paralysis?
Ana Ortiz: I mean, mine are so like pedestrian next to y’all.
It’s always zombies chasing me.
And once it was cow zombies, like I was on this farm, and it was awful.
I wake myself up.
Francesca Noel: Let me tell you the secret with zombies.
I get zombie dreams a lot.
You stick them in the head with a fork.
Let me tell you.
Jayden Bartels: I don’t think it took a lot of work, fortunately.
But I think one thing is, we bicker like siblings.
It’s never serious.
Bartels: We never even [thought about that].
Interestingly enough, I think that Devin and Cece move very differently.
Absolutely, some twins are literally the exact same thing.
But I think for Devin and Cece, that isn’t where their similarities fall.
I think their determination and relentlessness and their mind are where their similarities fall.
Galilea La Salvia: I actually have a fun story for this.
They’re asking me [about] my relationship with my mother.
And they were like, ‘Oh, well, should we include that for Frankie?
Like, would you want that?’
And I said, ‘I would love that.
Like, Are you cool with that?’
And they were also very kind that they were so inclusive.
But I feel like Rob and Hillary gave us a lot of freedom with our characters.
Francesca Noel: I loved my character because she was like an action figure.
So that was such a gift.
Ana Ortiz: I think for me, it was a lot of the same.
What Makes Goosebumps So Special, Even Today?
Horror is my favorite thing ever.
So it touches that interest in people, but also there’s so many relatable things.
So, I think it’s a perfect blend between the two.
If I could bottle that, I wouldn’t tell you, and I’d do it myself.
I don’t know.
Galilea La Salvia: It’s just something different and unique.
I think [‘Goosebumps’ author] R.L.
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Stein was, I believe, a comedy writer before he wrote the series ‘Goosebumps.’
And I feel like horror for kids is something that is not seen too often.
I think that’s why it’s something so unique.
I feel like it builds character.
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