'A Quiet Place: Day One' Director Jokes About The ‘Terrible’ Sound Effects He Made For Lupita Nyong’o And The Cast

Interview with Michael Sarnoski

Transcript

00:00Were there any special efforts made to kind of enhance the atmosphere of terror on the set?

00:05Not to enhance the atmosphere of terror. I mean, I guess one thing,

00:08sometimes when you're doing a quiet scene, it is very quiet and you really need the actors to be

00:11in that. And then sometimes there's so many things going on that they're just pretending

00:15that it's very quiet and they just are very good at acting. But one of the things was oftentimes

00:20I would have a microphone and be making creature sounds for them to react to so they could, you

00:24know, hear a screech and hear clicking and know what they were sort of experiencing.

00:29And they were terrible sound effects, but the actors found it useful. I remember Lupita really

00:33liked it. And then on one scene, Alex Wolff, she suggested to him like, oh, you should have

00:38Michael make the sounds. And he was like, no, that'll just be so distracting. And then he was

00:42like, okay, I'll try it one time. And I did it. And he was like, yeah, we got to do the sounds every

00:46time. That was great. So they were terrible sounds, but they seem to, they seem to work.

00:50I need to see that in the special features or something.

00:52I hope no one sees it. It's so embarrassing. And a lot of the takes, you could hear me in the

00:56background, like making screeches and we just have to mute it all because it was pretty embarrassing.

01:09Yeah.

01:10It's so embarrassing.

01:11Thanks.