Krysten Ritter on Nightbooks and Getting to Play an Over the Top and Evil Witch

From director David Yarovesky, the Netflix family horror-fantasy flick Nightbooks follows Alex (Winslow Fegley), an imaginative boy with a passion for writing scary stories who finds himself captured by an evil witch (deliciously brought to life by Krysten Ritter) that expects him to tell her a new tale every night, right when he’s sworn to never write again. Forced to reignite his creativity in order to stay alive, he enlists the help of Yasmin (Lidya Jewett), another young prisoner, in the hopes that together they can break fee. During this 1-on-1 interview with Collider, which you can both watch and read, Ritter talked about playing someone who’s just so much fun, taking on a character very different from what people saw her do on Jessica Jones, developing her backstory, finding the look of her fashionista witch, her homage to Freddy Krueger, and what her son thought of the blue hair. She also talked about her progression as a director and why the upcoming Girl in the Woods was a project that appeal