Kate Siegel Isn't Saying Goodbye to Acting, But She's Ready to Direct More

Kate Siegel on Collider Ladies Night for V/H/S/Beyond.

The Big Picture During her third appearance on Collider Ladies Night, Kate Siegel laughed and said, “It's so cliché for an actor to be like, ‘Oh, what I really want to do is direct,’ but I think what I really want to do is direct.

“ Once I was asked to do it, I was excited, but I felt pressure. I knew what it took, the amount of work it took to make this. And I knew I was taking a smaller bite because I was technically doing a short film, which is great , and it was even a smaller bite because I was stepping into an established franchise, so there was a machine that was already running. But even then, the pressure, the pressure, the pressure, the pressure. It ate me alive.

“Once I got on set, what I had afforded myself, what I had bought myself with all of that work was answers. People would come in and say, ‘Hey, do we da da da,’ and I'd go, ‘Da da da,’ and they'd look at me and be like, ‘Cool.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, I have the answers because I did the work ,’ and that started to steamroll. Then people got excited because they realized they were working for somebody who had done the prep.

“Something that Mike does on set, before you start any scene — I've only seen him do this — he stands up in the middle and he goes, ‘Welcome to scene 13.4,’ and then tells the story up to this point so that everybody knows where they are, what they're doing, and they feel committed to the story. He's inviting everybody to come be a part of the team and like, 'This is the story we're telling.

Siegel’s sets will mirror Flanagan’s in terms of them being safe places to try, fail, pivot and create as a unit. However, when it comes to the finished product, Siegel isolated a particular quality she’d like to define “A Kate Siegel Production” — telling stories from an emotional point of view. Here’s how she put it:

“I haven't experienced this on Mike's set. I'm thinking of a specific set that was not a Flanagan show.

Siegel explained she had someone specific in mind for the role of Halley, but given the non-union rules V/H/S had to abide by, she was required to select a pre-SAG actor. She could have found someone via the audition process, but then she realized the perfect candidate was already in her orbit, someone with a wealth of camera experience, but for YouTube, not for film — not yet at least. “Alanah had all the building blocks. They were just stacked in a different direction.

That right there was the single significant note Siegel gave to Pearce in order for her to be able to craft a wildly honest and captivating lead performance, one that instantly envelops the viewer in Halley's reality and makes you believe when things get extreme.

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