From ‘True Blood’ to ‘Hysteria!’ to ‘You,’ Anna Camp Is in Her Villain Era

Custom image from Jefferson Chacon of Anna Camp with feathered eighties hair and bangs for Hysteria!

The Big Picture &#x2715 Remove Ads The Peacockhorror series Hysteria! is a wild tale set during the Satanic Panic of the late 1980s, where a small town suddenly believes current events are being caused by supernatural activity. When a struggling high school heavy metal band decides to play up the fear spreading through their community and use that Satanic gimmick for attention, it works so well that folks actually start to point the finger directly at them.

CAMP: Great question. I signed on to do Hysteria! after only reading the pilot. First of all, I just loved the world they created – the eighties, the high school nostalgia, the coming of age story. My character introducing that religion versus rock clash was really exciting to me. And I knew something was going on with Tracy. I was like, “What’s bubbling underneath the surface with Tracy? Something is happening.” I did ask Matthew Scott Kane to give me a little hint of what was going on.

&#x2715 Remove Ads CAMP: Oh, my gosh. The first time must have been when I played Sarah Newlin on True Blood. It was so with so many different layers and twists and turns. Is she just a religious preacher’s wife? Wait, is she power hungry? Wait, is she completely salacious and sex-crazed? There were so many different amazing aspects of that, that it was just really fun. There was nothing basic about her, and there was definitely nothing basic about Tracy. I love approaching these characters.

CAMP: All those things are just the icing on the cake of this character that I worked on before I got to set. It’s the final puzzle pieces. We named the wig Trace. When I would go into the hair and makeup trailer, I would go, “Oh, is it time for Trace?” And Katie Ballard, our wig designer, would come out and she would crown her onto my head. Everything would click into place, and I began to sit differently and walk differently.

&#x2715 Remove Ads I feel like there has to be some bonding involved when you have a slapping scene because you have to trust each other.

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