‘Freaky’ star Kathryn Newton talks about working with Vince Vaughn

• Kathryn Newton, star of the new horror film “Freaky”, told Insider in an interview that working with co-star Vince Vaughn was “the best experience”.
• Newton plays Millie, a shy high school girl who swaps bodies with the infamous Blissfield Butcher (Vaughn) after a violent attack went wrong.
• “The day Vince and I met, we were doing dance rehearsals,” Newton said. “So we immediately looked in the mirror, just trying to see where we could copy or imitate each other.”
• “He had so many great ideas, and just being collaborative like that was easy,” he added.
• According to Newton, she was able to nail her interpretation of the Butcher trapped in a teenager’s body because Vaughn was so cooperative.
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Kathryn Newton is a self-proclaimed “scary cat,” but in her new film “Freaky”, the actress is transformed from a hot and downright unpopular high school student named Millie into a confident and ferocious serial killer trapped in the body of a teenager.

Newton’s co-star Vince Vaughn plays the infamous Blissfield Butcher, whose attempt to kill Millie one night goes horribly wrong, causing the two to switch bodies. This means that the violent Butcher now dresses up as a teenager and Millie has become a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Nailing Vaughn’s ways was “easy,” the actress said.

“The day Vince and I met, we were rehearsing dance,” Newton told Insider of his experience working with his co-star. “So immediately, we looked in the mirror, just trying to see where we could copy each other, or imitate each other, and get certain mannerisms.”

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According to Newton, she and Vaughn collaborated extensively on the physicality of their characters, both before and after the body swap.

“[Vaughn] he had so many great ideas. To just be collaborative like that, it was easy, “the actress said.” We are both determined [to figure out] how Millie would walk and how the Butcher would walk. And they were two totally different things “.

“And so once we were on the same page with little mannerisms like the way I run with my hands – Vince kills him when he’s Millie – it was easy because we had each other to exchange ideas from,” added Newton. . “I’d be on set doing the Butcher, and [Vaughn] He would be there too, so I might ask him or he might ask me, ‘What do you think of this? What do you think the character would do here? ”

Newton said she wasn’t sure at first if she was successfully playing the Butcher when he’s trapped in Millie’s body.

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“I had no idea if people were buying it,” he told Insider. “But on set, there were times when I was holding a chainsaw, I’m kind of covered in blood, and people would walk away from me and I was like, ‘OK, it’s working, I’m scaring everyone.'”

The actress, who was a huge Vaughn fan before filming began, told Insider she was grateful she was able to collaborate so closely with a co-star.

“I’ll never have that experience again, let alone someone I’ve admired my entire life,” she said. “For example, I love Vince Vaughn. So asking such a great actor what he thinks of a scene – it’s simply the best experience.”

And the actress revealed that she was ultimately pleased with the way the film ended Millie’s story and subverted traditional horror film tropes.

“It was great to win,” Newton said.

“Freaky” will premiere on Friday in theaters. You can watch the trailer below.