“I’m not much of a thriller person,” Young Sheldon star and Rules For Fake Girlfriends author Raegan Revord told Glamour a few minutes before the screening, though they hoped seeing The Housemaid might inspire a new love for the genre. “Adaptations, in general, are so important because if you are someone who can’t really get into reading, but you have a favorite movie or a favorite show that is an adaptation, that can be the pipeline that gets you into reading and opens up that door.”
The film’s own producer Carly Kleinbart didn’t even finish the entire book before deciding she needed to make the movie, eagerly calling up fellow producer Todd Lieberman while he was in the middle of a silent retreat. “I think it was page 100 and I’m like, I’m fucking in,” she told the audience while introducing the film alongside Lieberman, producer Laura Fischer, and director Paul Feig.
“When I first read [The Housemaid], I was like, ‘Okay, this is a very dark story but at the same time, I think it could be fun,’” Feig added. “There’s very, very dark topics in here, so we don’t shy away from that. But at the same time, we wanted to make this into a movie that’s kind of Hitchcockian, where you have a good time while you’re being thrilled and you’re being scared…This is not a church. You can make noise during this. Have fun.”
Let’s just say the audience took that to heart, gasping and yelling—and sometimes even cackling—throughout the film’s two-hour and 11-minute runtime. I ran into Revord on my way out of the screening, though “wild” was all I could think of to say. Revord enthusiastically agreed, adding, “I have to go read the book now.”
You can see The Housemaid in theaters now…then go home and read McFadden’s entire Housemaid series. Yes, there’s two more books.
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