The Aquaman and Conjuring star is making his directorial debut with the latest entry in the horror franchise.
“It wasn’t out of,ugh, my god.
I love these guys,” the actor, 49, tells EW.
Ty Simpkins and Patrick Wilson in ‘Insidious: The Red Door’.Nicole Rivelli/Screen Gems
“I have such great memories of making those movies.
I just thought, ‘Okay, I’ve saved someone from being possessed and I’ve been possessed.
What else is there to do?'”
Patrick Wilson in ‘Insidious: The Red Door’.Nicole Rivelli/Screen Gems
“With dead people.”
“[My character] was in it for a little bit.
They pitched it to my agent originally.
Rose Byrne in ‘Insidious: The Red Door’.Nicole Rivelli/Screen Gems
And they were like, ‘That’s a perfect idea.’
So then they pitched it to me.'”
“I said, ‘Just hold on a sec,'” he recalls.
Sinclair Daniel in ‘Insidious: The Red Door’.Nicole Rivelli/Screen Gems
I sat on it for about a day and then I realized, ‘Are you kidding me?
Of course I want to do this.’
Where else are you going to get this opportunity?
Patrick Wilson in ‘Insidious: The Red Door’.Boris Martin/Screen Gems
And I started to think about the story, about what I would want to do."
This is the movie I want to make.’
And they were like, ‘Great, go with God.’
So then we got Scott Teems and we spent literally two-and-a-half, three years writing it."
Simpkins, like Wilson, had assumed his time with theInsidiousfranchise was over.
“[I got] an email, at first, in 2019.
So I was still in high school.
I saw a bunch of different drafts of the script until we finally got what’s onscreen.”
Sinclair describes her role as “this unlikely friend that Dalton meets.
She’s very loyal and ends up being this confidant for Dalton.”
He’s an actor and a director and an actors’ director which is very helpful.
He was a first-time director, but I wouldn’t have known."
Then when he’s directing you, there’s so much trust.
I think he was able to bring out probably my best performance in anything I’ve done."
As he said, “We got to torture him a little bit, which was nice.”
While the Blumhouse founder was joking, Wilson admits that there is a germ of truth to the comment.
“I mean, these are friends of mine, these are coworkers of mine,” he says.
‘Do you need this many set-ups?’
‘Can you tell the story quicker?’
That’s what you’re constantly asked.
It’s just pulling away cards and you hope the house doesn’t fall.
But everything’s so precious to me.I need that scene, you guys!"
“The plan is to do anotherConjuringfilm,” he says.
“I have not read anything nor have I signed anything, but there is a script.
Once the strike hopefully gets resolved, then we can move on from there.”
Is Wilson finally done with Josh Lambert?
“Well, the quick answer is yes,” he says.
Ty could do these movies for a long time.
I’m sure it’s exciting for a studio because the IP doesn’t go away for a studio.
But Josh and Renai?
Speaking on behalf of Rose, no.
I think we close our door."
Insidious: The Red Dooris released in theaters July 7.
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