Of course with numbers and reach as big as it got ($340.1m, thank you very much), a sequel looked inevitable. They found it really involving and exciting.' but also the very deep metaphorical themes that people pulled out of it, some of which were intended, and some of which really weren’t. 'Not only by just how many people went to see it and then told their friends to see it, and then it had this meteoric life that was not expected by me. 'I was gobsmacked!' Blunt recalls of her reaction to the buzz that built while she was filming Jungle Cruise. 'We were aware that the studio was probably going to make a sequel, with or without us' Emily BluntĪt a taut 90 minutes and stacked with as much character study as jump-scares, A Quiet Place transcended its genre to court awards, became part of a conversation about ‘elevated horror’ and inspired fan theories about deeper themes. He was a central character in the first film as well as writer/director, and the muscle memory of performing with this close-knit cast apparently hasn’t left him. As the takes play out, Krasinski shouts out enthusiastic encouragement (“Great!” “More of that!”), and moves with the action as though he’s in the scene with the actors. “Cillian’s going to come in and hopefully not decapitate my wife!” he jokes cheerfully as he maps out a scene where real-life spouse, Emily Blunt, fearfully rushes through the building with her on-screen kids before being ambushed by Cillian Murphy’s mysterious stranger, whirling her round and clamping a hand over her mouth. An upbeat but commanding presence, he’s working fast to make use of the precious hours he has with his two child actors before they have to attend school.

In a film with very little dialogue, there’s no need for headsets, and in the cavernous mill building, as dust motes swirl, John Krasinski is enthusiastically bellowing orders to his buzzing team.

Amid the disused steelworks of Seneca in Buffalo, New York, on a bright August day before the 2019 Labour Day weekend, the production of A Quiet Place 2 observes no such repose. Crew scamper around whispering, the admonishment of ‘Quiet please!’ is shouted regularly, and any on-set dialogue is captured by mics and relayed noiselessly through headsets to those mutely watching proceedings. Often on a film set, the atmosphere is one of cathedral-like silence.

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