Here's the entirety you need to learn about the 'Are You Afraid of the Dark' Nickelodeon reboot, together with who plays the terrifying villain Mr. Tophat. Details inside of.
Does everything want to be rebooted? After the Disney flops and communicate of a Dion-focused Clueless remake, it kind of feels like the genre is getting drained. But that didn't forestall Nickelodeon from bringing again '90s vintage Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and even though we're weary, we will be able to unquestionably be tuning in.
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Back when we were kids, Are You Afraid of the Dark was the scariest kid-oriented display on TV. Ask any millennial, and you'll be hard-pressed to seek out somebody who wasn't peeking between arms at the episodes involving a personality stuck behind a replicate (this creator's personal favourite), or haunted and abandoned homes.
Now, the famously spooky Midnight Society is again with a limited sequence, and they're not shying clear of horrifying tales. But as an alternative of just telling the scary stories around the campfire like the outdated display did, this Are You Afraid of the Dark reboot is throwing the character inside of the scary tales.
One primary routine persona is Mr. Tophat, portrayed via Blindspotting actor Rafael Casal. Keep reading for the entirety you wish to find out about him.
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Mr. Tophat is at the middle of the nightmarish Carnival of Doom.
Show writer BenDavid Grabsinki was interested in the thought of that specialize in the storytellers and their position in the horror action, almost greater than in just the stories themselves.
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In an interview with TV Guide, the creator mentioned, "The fun of that idea is the Midnight Society are fundamentally horror nerds who know everything about stories that are scary and having them deal with that creates a different dynamic because they know how these things play out."
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The reboot makes a speciality of the Carnival of Doom, one of the personality's retellings of a terrifying nightmare come to existence. Rafael Casal's Mr. Tophat is the protagonist of this demented carnival, one that starts as a simple scary tale, till "they all wake up the next day and discover that the carnival is real," explains actress Lyliana Wray, the talent at the back of new lady Rachel.
Mr. Tophat is described as an "evil Willy Wonka," who heads the carnival and presides as the grasp of ceremonies. "More than scary, it was just awesome," Rafael mentioned of the experience of running on this antique anthology sequence.
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"The first time you see the shots you decide whether or not you buy it, and we knew in that moment [of watching the first take] that oh, yeah, this is working," Rafael persevered. "This villain has to be the polar end of terror, so it has to sell. I was excited that it worked."
Follow Rafael on Instagram and take a look at his different projects.
Rafael turns out to have gotten the gig as Mr. Tophat via being pals with BenDavid, who penned the reboot. But the 34-year-old were given his start on three seasons of HBO's Def Poetry, the place he made a name for himself in the slam poetry scene.
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Flash ahead a couple of years and the poet used to be penning his personal tale along his BFF, Hamilton superstar Daveed Diggs, for the acclaimed 2018 Blindspotting, which makes use of verse to inform the story of Oakland, CA, their hometown. These days, Rafael is really unstoppable. He's set to make his directorial debut in the upcoming First Sight, which is a sci-fi romantic comedy.
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Follow the actor, director, author and manufacturer on Instagram to stay alongside of his newest tasks, as a result of now we have a feeling Rafael is simplest simply getting began.
Are You Afraid of the Dark's 2019 reboot is a limited, three-episode collection airing on Fridays via October 25 on Nickelodeon at 7 p.m.
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