But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t experienced a real sense of fear while filming a scene.
“He went totally white, and he stood up, and I could see his shoulder was out.
He looked like he was going to pass out.”
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Schwimmer remembers “immediately turning to the camera like, ‘Cut, cut, cut.’
That was genuinely frightening.
You could see how badly hurt he was.
David Schwimmer in ‘Goosebumps’.Disney/Francisco Roman
And we had to stop filming that night, obviously, and he went to hospital.
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LeBlanc’s accident briefly came up during HBO Max’s 2021reunion special.
I was like, ‘Wait, what?’
The cast of ‘Goosebumps’.Disney/Francisco Roman
Because I’ve never been able to act in horror-action-comedy, and I’m such a fan.
I’m a genuine fan of horror.”
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Goosebumpsis an adaptation of the popular series of children’s horror novels byR.L.
What is the tone of this project?'
Here, it’s horror within a certain audience.
It’s geared toward a certain audience.
There’s also comedy, there’s also action, and there’s also drama."
“One of the things I’m kind of in awe of is the tone.
It’s not too gory… they manage to make you feel safe while you’re getting scared.”
Goosebumpsis, after all, a children’s property.
But then “the question becomes, ‘Okay, how do you make that funny?'”
Schwimmer says he “felt that the best way to attempt to be funny was to underplay everything.
To come at it from underneath and throw everything away, throw the comedy away.”
Goosebumps: The Vanishingpremieres all eight episodes on Jan. 10, 2025, on Disney + and Hulu.
