I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn’t understand myself, I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.
For a time, I was all you had. And for a time, you was all I had. We weren’t orphans. Not as long as we had each other.
“The saddest thing for me, maybe in this whole show, was watching Eleanor reach out to people in different ways. She kind of systematically goes through the family looking for help. The episode was kind of built this way, once Arthur was out of the picture. Even when she was in the car with Luke, he asks her how she’s doing and she answers him. She doesn’t like to be at home alone. She hears things at night. She sees things. And he interrupts her. She reached out to Theo and Theo wasn’t really listening. The tragedy of Eleanor, for me, more than anything, is that there are numerous opportunities throughout this episode in her interactions with her siblings, with everyone in her family, that probably could have saved her. That is the kind of stuff I find the most haunting.”
- Mike Flanagan making me cry even more over Nell’s story during his commentary for Episode 5 of The Haunting of Hill House
DISNEY HEROINES + FLOWER SYMBOLISM
➤ The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
