S4 - Ep7 Recapping Wrapping the Trilogy with Spencer & McKenna

We just want to reflect on our time on set, going all the way back to our first set this year, which was The Days Are Evil.

We shot this film back in April, and Demetrius Troy, who plays Lazarus in The Chosen, was our Pastor James.

And this was the kickoff of the Suicide Prevention Trilogy.

Let's take it back before we even started filming.

Yeah.

Let's go way back.

Let's go way back.

Let's

go way back.

We're not completely caught up on sleep yet.

If you can't tell, um, okay.

On our first date,

which

was Christmas Eve at Cracker Barrel, what six years ago, almost Spencer was like, I want to make a suicide prevention film.

And he told me all about it.

And so since I've known you've wanted to do this project, And we were going to do it before Satanic, but I was like, let's do a happy film before this sad film.

And at the beginning of the year, when you just started writing The Days Are Evil script, it was originally supposed to be one movie.

It was just going to be one.

There was no trilogy, one movie that was the end.

And then as you started writing, the story kept growing and growing and growing and the characters kept evolving and evolving and evolving.

And he's like, he comes up from his lair and he's like, I think I'm going to make a trilogy.

And I was like, a trilogy? He's like, yeah, they can follow every character for each one.

And he's explaining it.

And I was like, wow, this is a really great idea.

But who is going to come here into Pennsylvania to film these films on suicide prevention? Because it's going to be so sad and so hard.