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When it first appeared on bookshelves in 1979, V.C. Andrews' novel, Flowers in the Attic , shocked audiences with its voyueristic look into one family's twisted circumstance. For those uninitiated, the story follows the Dollanganger children, who, after their father dies, are convinced by their mother to stay hidden in their grandmother's attic so she can reclaim the family's fortune. But as the years pass, the two oldest children — Cathy and Christopher — come of age, and look to one another for support and comfort in the midst of their unconventional and often painful upbringing.
But as the two young children begin to transform into adults, their feelings towards one another shift, and a once innocent relationship becomes convoluted by unfamiliar feelings. Bustle spoke with Mason Dye, the 19-year-old actor who takes on the controversial role of Christopher in Lifetime's adaptation of the novel, premiering Saturday, Jan. 18th. Minor spoilers ahead.
"I have the book sitting in my lap right now," Dye said of the 1979 novel. "I hadn't read it before I auditioned, but I wanted to read it because of the massive following this book has — it's a big character and I wanted to make the fans happy. V.C. Andrews is a genius, she knows what interests people and she knows how to get people's attention."
And what garnered the attention of readers of more than 400 million copies sold, is the primal desire of attraction, and in this case, forbidden attraction. Stuck in an attic, teenage Cathy (played by Mad Men 's Kiernan Shipka) and Christopher have no one else their age to relate or even interact with, and eventually fall in love. And in one particularly graphic sequence, the brother and sister act on their feelings.
"Honestly it didn't affect me," said Dye of shooting the scene with 14-year-old Shipka. "Kiernan's not really my sister, she's just a really good friend," he said, continuing, "For instance, I like to pull from past experiences in my acting. But this, I had nothing to pull from. I had to find a different way to go about it. We talked to the director and he came up with a way their relationship could be related to: What if my best friend has a girlfriend, and I have feelings for his girlfriend? I would know it's wrong to talk to her or try to kiss her. But eventually if it got to a point where we both felt that way, and we had strong feelings for each other, it would just... happen. That's how we viewed it. I didn't have any hesitations."
In the 1987 version of the film starring Louise Fletcher and Victoria Tennant, they infamously left out the story's incest. In Lifetime's version, this will not be the case. "As an actor you don't want to be stagnant, you want to move forward, and it doesn't necessarily mean taking on controversial roles, but if that's what it takes to make you better than I'm all for it," he said. "And at the end of the day, it's just acting."
Outside of his incestuous relationship with his sister, there are many qualities that define Christopher. He becomes the father figure of the younger children in the attic, he's always looking out for his family and "he's an optimist, he's very smart," said Dye. "In those areas I can relate, I try to stay positive, and I can solve a Rubik's cube in 30 seconds, well 29 — but who's counting. On set I did that all the time, I'd just whip out my cube and solve it."
Christopher is also very attached to his mother, especially after his father dies. "He's completely loves his mom. And I can relate to that, I'm a mama's boy and a daddy's boy, I love my parents," Dye said.
And although his on screen sister/lover (not to be confused with SNL 's mother/lover ) is played by an actress five years his junior, Kiernan Shipka has many more years of acting experience under her belt. "Oh Kiernan, Kiernan, Kiernan," Dye crooned. "I love her. The first day we just clicked, and we hung out every day after that. She's incredibly talented, she's the most intelligent, mature 14-year-old I've ever met. When you're talking to her you feel like she's 25."
But the maturity of Shipka wasn't the only on set surprise he received. "Honestly, Heather surprised me," said Dye of his on screen mother, Heather Graham. "I didn't realize she would be that sweet. She is one of the nicest people I've ever met. I don't even know how to explain it — she's just a great person. If we had a small break where she could go back to her trailer, she'd just hang out with Kiernan and I instead. I love all the Hangover 's. I was so stoked," he said.
Dye has only been living in Los Angeles for 11 months. "I've been very blessed and fortunate," he said of his quick success in Hollywood. "I was playing baseball in high school and got hurt, and that's how I was planning to go to college. So I had to figure out a different road to go down." Is college still in his future? " I would say I probably won't go to college. Right now, I just want to live my life," he said. "I might delve into filmmaking, a little bit of cinematography, directing, producing. I honestly just want to do it all."
See the extended trailer for Flowers in the Attic below, and tune in Saturday at 8 pm on Lifetime to see Dye take on the now iconic role.
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It premiered. They incested. We were captivated.
Lifetime finally gifted the world with their highly anticipated remake of V.C. Andrews ' Flowers in the Attic on Saturday night, making up for the extremely lackluster '87 film adaptation that left us unsatisfied.
Telling the story of four children locked in an attic by their abusive mother and grandmother, Mad Men star Kiernan Shipka , Mason Dye , Ellen Burstyn and Heather Graham brought the Dollanganger (or Foxworth) gang to the small screen in all its soapy glory, refusing to shy away from the book's controversial subject matter. (Incest? Yep. Child abuse? You know it.)
Of course, we watched, wine glass in hand and with glee in our heart, as all the melodrama went down. And here are our 10 favorite things about Flowers in the Attic ...
1. Kiernan Shipka: No explanation necessary, right? The Mad Men star was the bee's knees as Cathy, delivering epic "bitch, please" faces to her mother with ease. We bow down, Sally Draper. We bow down.
2. This line: "Remember, God sees everything."
3. Grandmother Olivia (a scene-stealing Burstyn) shoving the two 5-year-old twins to the ground. Speaking of...
4. The horrible acting from the young twins. So bad, so good. (Spoiler alert: One dies. Wah-wah-wah.)
5. So much incest: Not only do brother and sister Christopher (Dye) and Cathy end up hooking up to pass time in the attic, but their father and mother were also related. (He was her half-uncle.)
6. Corinne's (Graham) journey from doting and caring mother trying to take care of her four kids after her husband's death to literally sprinkling rat poison on donuts and feeding them to said four kids. Cold-blooded!
Also, one of our favorite moments had to be Heather Graham literally looking up when she said, "Things are finally starting to look up for us." (So Method.)
7. Cathy's horrible haircut after her grandmother puts tar in her hair. Also, can you believe Cathy and Christopher chose a week without food, for them and the twins, rather than cutting her hair? At least they had a chance to feast on the sight of her gorgeous locks for a few days before Targate.
8. The epic slap Corinne delivers to Christopher. Hell hath no fury like a mother c--kblocked.
9. The fact that a staircase is what eventually ends Olivia's reign of terror. You see, she was claustrophobic.
10. There's going to be a sequel: Set 10 years in the future, Petals in the Wind will be "a juicy revenge drama," writer Kayla Alpert teased . While we're super-excited about another movie, we're sad that Shipka will probably not be able to play Cathy again.
Here are three options to take over the juicy role:
Emma Watson: She looks just like Shipka, and hello, she's Emma Watson. (Then again, she turned down Fifty Shades of Grey , so incest probably isn't at the top of her wish list when it comes to her roles.)
Ashley Benson: We feel the Pretty Little Liars could totally play up the soapy goodness of the second book, which is insane in the membrane.
Haylie Duff: She's the network's go-to girl when it comes to their movies. Plus, she's not that busy.
What did you think of Flowers in the Attic ? And who do you think should play Cathy in the sequel, if Shipka should exit the role (Shudder!)?
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All in all, Lifetime’s adaptation of Flowers in the Attic , which aired over the weekend, turned out to be a lot more faithful to V.C. Andrews’s gothic teen incest classic than the high camp — if ultimately chaste — 1987 film starring a young Kristy Swanson, which nixed the all-important brother-sister romance, just to start. The new adaptation’s writer, Kayla Alpert ( Up All Night , Ally McBeal ), who, hidden away from her parents, devoured the book in junior high under her Laura Ashley comforter, kept in most of the novel’s most taboo and outrageous delights — sibling sex, grandmotherly whippings, poisoned doughnuts (never cookies!) — but also says she felt compelled to make a few tweaks to amp up the stakes if not the melodrama. “We didn’t want it to be a total campfest,” she said. Here, Alpert discusses with Vulture the biggest differences between the TV movie and the book.
No penis-measuring, no blood-drinking. On the spectrum of psychological horror, Alpert says she wanted to take the story tonally away from Mommie Dearest and toward Rosemary’s Baby . To do that, she nixed most of Andrews’s flowery, formal dialogue as well as some of the novel’s more absurd moments. Grandma still pours tar in Cathy’s hair because she’s righteous and vicious, but Chris and Cathy are afforded a little more common sense. For example: Chris doesn’t try to revive his weakened brother Corey by making him drink blood, nor does he get stuck explaining why he’s taking stock of his penis to Cathy. “The book is great but it’s not perfect,” Alpert laughed. “It tends to go up and down with how much Cathy knows and doesn’t know. In some ways, she’s very wise and emotionally savvy; in other ways, she’s overly sexually naïve. We had to even it out a little bit. When you try to dramatize someone measuring their penis and someone walking in on it, it could wind up being a little bit silly. ”
Chris doesn’t rape Cathy. In the book, Cathy steals a kiss from her mother’s sleeping fiancé, sending Chris into a jealous rage that ends in rape. Alpert changed it to Chris angrily shaking his sister and immediately feeling bad about it. Then they sleep together. The rape scene was in the original script, but both Lifetime executives and Alpert felt it didn’t belong (this well before a then-13-year-old Kiernan Shipka was cast as Cathy). “It comes out of nowhere in the book,” Alpert explained. “He rapes her, and on the next page she’s comforting him and in love with him. To be totally honest, I actually felt like it wasn’t earned. Like, if I was giving notes to V.C. Andrews, I would have said that felt very strange. It’s hard to root for Chris again after that happens.”
Grandmother’s bitter backstory. Ellen Burstyn found it difficult to empathize with Olivia, who in the book is a Bible-toting witch who has been furious for the twenty years since her daughter Corrine married the stepbrother of Olivia’s husband (basically, Corrine’s step-uncle). Alpert created a better explanation, and calls it “the biggest change we made … Ellen wanted to broaden and deepen the character, so we went to the drawing board and came up with more of a reason why the relationship between Olivia and Corrine was so fraught.” Alpert focused on an idea briefly hinted at in the book that Olivia had long been jealous of the attention her husband lavished on their daughter. When she whips Corrine in the movie, for example, Olivia explains it’s not just for her illicit marriage, but for “every year she used her wicked charms on my husband.” Another scene was added in which Olivia’s old wounds are reopened when her ailing husband gifts his prodigal daughter with an expensive necklace in front of everyone during a party.
Cathy and Chris encounter a friendly fawn. In a sequence invented for the movie, Cathy and Chris get close to a deer on the Foxworth grounds after they escape for a swim in the lake. Later, they watch the animal get shot from their attic window, and an electric fence is installed around the property, making an escape look even more hopeless. “The kids basically make a copy of the key and walk out in the book. Not the most dramatic ending for a movie,” Alpert said. “We needed to create some external obstacles and stakes, and also a metaphor for who they are, these young fawns getting destroyed in this house. Seeing the deer die, they understand what happens to them if they don’t leave.”
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