The Girl Before’sultra-minimalist dream house harbors dark secrets.
It can be claustrophobic.
It can be cocooning.
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It can be warm or it can be sterile."
It’s also, according to Delaney, “Edward’s brain made concrete.”
“We made endless, endless sheets of architectural concrete that we applied.”
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Stairway to Hell
Henson calls the floating stone staircase “a death trap.”
The building of the stairs themselves posed another challenge.
“It just made you really feel uneasy, like you were going to fall off.
So we built an enormous steel structure outside the set, just to accommodate the stairs.”
And, to further complicate matters, they built two versions of each of the individual steps.
Henson describes it as “a steel strut that comes out with a tile cladding that slides off.”
“They’re basically tubes which you could dim the LED on so they don’t get hot.
“We built those lights through the whole set.
While the final effect is striking, it ended up being a lot of work for Henson.
“On reflection, I created a monster.
Yeah, it was quite a chore in the end,” he admits.
A version of this story appears in the March issue ofEntertainment Weekly, on newsstands Feb. 18.
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