Go Behind the Scenes of ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ With the Cast (PHOTOS)
Kiernan Shipka gives new meaning to “Netflix and chill” while shooting teen witch Sabrina Spellman’s encounter with ghost Quentin (Liam Hughes), who haunts the Academy of Unseen Arts. Luckily, the chilly Vancouver woods are the only thing making Shipka’s blood run cold. “I am notoriously hard to scare,” she admits. “I feel like [the show is] testing me at a certain level.”
Michelle Gomez gets some air, courtesy of a lift that makes her appear to be levitating. Gomez’s evil Madam Satan/Lilith, who inhabited the body of Baxter High’s beloved Ms. Wardwell for Parts 1 and 2, quickly became a fan favorite. “It’s difficult not to like somebody who wears those heels and destroys men to get what she wants,” Gomez says with a laugh.
Director and supervising producer Rob Seidenglanz (left) keeps it light on the Church of Night set with Shipka and Richard Coyle (center), who promises he’s nothing like his Father Blackwood. “He is very threatening,” Coyle admits. “I don’t know that I am all that threatening.”
As Prudence Blackwood, the ringleader of Greendale’s most troublesome trio, Tati Gabrielle (second from left, with Adeline Rudolph as Agatha, Shipka and Abigail Cowen as Dorcas) is no basic witch. “I made sure that everything she did came from a place of true belief or emotion,” says the actress, who adds, “[She’s] never being mean just for the sake of being mean.”
Consider us spellbound! Miranda Otto (left) plays the spicy Zelda Spellman to Lucy Davis’s (right) slightly sweeter Hilda Spellman. Davis definitely revels in the witchy sisters’ dynamic: “Our favorite scenes are when we find things for Hilda and Zelda to be at odds over,” she says. “It could be something really small, but seeing how the other one reacts always makes it funnier.”
The Dark Lord’s milkshake brings all the witches to the yard — when he looks like hotter-than-hell Luke Cook. (Surprise: It’s actually stunt actor Quinton Boisclair in the goat head here.) “It was a tall order,” executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa says of showing Lucifer’s human form in the finale. “You risk alienating fans if they don’t like him. Then out of the mines walked Luke as the Dark Lord and it’s like, ‘OK, no problems here!'”
Mortals and witches and miners, oh my! The cast got cozy for Sabrina’s dream-sequence wedding to Harvey Kinkle (Ross Lynch, back row, third from left), which leaned into the show’s theme of duality. “Sabrina is inherently about two worlds — the mortal and witch worlds,” says Aguirre-Sacasa, who loves to balance “the horror with a story of high school romance.”
Greendale runs on more than just dark magic in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
A coven of crew members work well past the witching hour to keep the Adventures on schedule. Click through the gallery above for a behind the scenes look at spooky streamer.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Streaming now, Netflix
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