Hayden Panettiere Talks 'Amber Alert,' Leaning Into Horror and Using Motherhood as Inspiration

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00:00I mean, first of all, they're really fun to play.

00:03They're fun to be on the set of.

00:08It's fun playing a character that

00:10is in a heightened emotional state.

00:15But with this project, too, it was

00:20we had to tackle how to build the anticipation.

00:29And I learned from the best during my first horror movie,

00:34which was with Wes Craven.

00:36And he taught me things that, knowing that I had never

00:40done horror before.

00:43And he taught me things like, in this moment,

00:48the speed of your walk, slow it way down.

00:52Even though it might feel uncomfortable,

00:56there's that scene in Scream 4 where I'm on the phone,

01:01and I think it's Trevor pretending to be Ghostface.

01:07And I think he's turned around, and I

01:09think he's in the closet.

01:11That walk to the closet was so slow.

01:15It felt like I was acting in slow motion.

01:20But when I opened the door, it gives that perfect timing

01:28that you have to find to get that reaction,

01:32the right reaction out of the audience, that scare,

01:35that jump scare.

01:39And this one was a different kind of horror film to me.

01:46It's something that happens every day.

01:52It's something that, when I read the script, at the end,

01:59I had to look at myself in the mirror

02:03and realize that I have not done my due diligence when I've

02:11gotten those alerts, because I have, in the past,

02:15been in the mind frame of the chances of me

02:20being the one to find the right car,

02:25person who abducted this child, are one in millions.

02:34But if I can just, every time, I keep it on, too,

02:39because people are allowed to turn it off now.

02:42And sometimes it is about the weather,

02:44but a lot of the times it is an Amber Alert.

02:46And if everyone who's on the road or just even walking

02:51just took a second to look around them, everyone,

02:55even if they're in a rush, just take a look around them.

02:59We can rescue these children being abducted

03:05if everyone thought like that.

03:07So it was important for me to do this movie,

03:09not just because I loved the script,

03:12but because I saw it as also like a PSA to remind people

03:20that I hope, at the end of you watching this,

03:23it's going to change people's behaviors

03:25and how they handle themselves in those situations

03:30when they do see and come across an Amber Alert.

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