CinemaDirector of ‘The Deliverance’ reveals that he prayed every day on the set: ‘Not today, Satan’Lee Daniels was worried about directing his first horror film, so he even had a real apostle during the filming of the movietoday at 11:13

Lee Daniels made his first horror film. The Liberationavailable on Netflix, is directed by Daniels and script of David Coggeshall and Elijah Bynum.

The film tells the story of Ebony (Andra Day)a single mother of three children (Caleb McLaughlin, Demi Singleton and Anthony B. Jenkins) who also needs to take care of his own sick mother (Glenn Close). The family moves into a seemingly haunted house and still has to deal with a social worker concerned about the children. It’s all based on a case from Gary, Indiana, in the United States, about Latoya Ammons.

To embark on the genre, however, Daniels needed to listen to his mother’s advice. “My mother spoke to me because she really believed that I am an open portal for this kind of energy, and she felt that if I were to do that, something bad would happen to me,” the filmmaker said in an interview with Variety.

That’s why, Daniels had a real apostle present “all the time on the set”: “It was to help Aunjanue [Ellis-Taylor, que interpreta uma apóstola] with their work and to protect us from the set.”

Look, I read these books about the production of Poltergeist and The Exorcist. And I was like, ‘No, not today, Satan. It’s not happening today, motherf*cker.’ So we prayed every day. Netflix HR recorded the first day we prayed and said, ‘This might be offensive to some people.’ I was like, ‘Wait a minute, we have to address this, because I’m not going to go into this jungle without praying every day.’ So we found a system where I could say, ‘I don’t want to be offensive, but those of you who don’t like to pray, feel free to leave the set.’ There were a few people who left, but the majority of our 200-person crew knew they wanted protection. Clearly, they’d read the same books I had.