Hiam Abbass avoided horror movies before Hellraiser: "I come from a background... with a lot of fearful things"
"I thought maybe being in it would help me get through watching it," the Succession star tells The A.V. Club in an new exclusive interview
Everyone starts somewhere. Although Succession star Hiam Abbass may be trying her hand at a new kind of terror in Hulu’s Hellraiser remake, the horror genre is still a largely new world for her. In a new interview with The A.V. Club’s Todd Gilchrist, the Palestinian actor says that she avoided horror films for much of her life due to discomfort with the subject material.
“I come from a background where it was already loaded with a lot of fearful things, so I couldn’t cope with watching things that would get me back to that fear,” Abbass shares. “On the contrary, I needed things that would just open my imagination to something more beautiful, less fearful, and more promising,”
According to Abbass, what finally spurred a shift was a realization that just maybe, being onscreen in a horror picture would help her shake off her viewing jitters.