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Speaking of the mechanics of it, as a viewer you know what you're watching is very much a scene from science fiction or a horror movie. So that's always really fun, but getting to be aware of other people who are working on the show and the writing and what's going to be going into the mechanics of it all is a really interesting perspective. It keeps you a little bit more mindful about the production as a whole, rather than just your one job in it, which I think is good because if I didn't have something else to focus on, I wouldn't really be doing much on the show other than telling people they're on a prank show, which is fun in itself.Īnd I get to basically sit back and watch the pranks go down from a control room and then wait until I get to do the fun part. That's what my producer tried with the show that has actually helped out a lot. Were you at least able to get involved in coming up with the scenarios for the pranks this season? But it is hard because a lot of people do recognize me from my work outside of Prank Encounters and even sometimes my work outside of Stranger Things. If I had to pick another one, I might want to have been involved in the Camp Scarecrow one, which would have been fun if I got to play a counselor.

So I'm glad if I got to do one, it was that one. One of my favorite ones is the one I did get to be involved with, which was the birthday party that went south when it turned out that the gentleman who lives at the home did not have a 9-year-old daughter at all. There are some great ones that I just wish I could have just been in it. Was there a prank either last season or even in this one where you wish you'd been involved in it more?

So that's always in the back of our heads more, the awareness people might have of the fact that they might be on the show now that they know this show exists. And I didn't do anything! It was very funny. She was reading and I was in the waiting room and somebody was there and they thought that it was a fake audition and there were hidden cameras around and he was honestly upset with me. My girlfriend had an audition one time and I took her up to New York for it and we were just going to spend a day there. What'll happen now is I'll be out in public, with my family or with my girlfriend or something, and people will think they're getting pranked. Because when we were filming the first season, it wasn't even announced that I was going to be working on a prank show. We didn't really have the opportunity to have me get involved in the pranks as much, which we should have taken advantage of more in the first season when we had the opportunity. I definitely found myself more nervous going in, because the thing is, it also made it harder. With the first season of Prank Encounters already out and people being more aware of the show, did you find it harder to scare people? So ahead of the second season premiere on April Fools' Day 1, SYFY WIRE caught up with Matarazzo to learn just what it takes to prank two complete strangers and just all the things that can go wrong in the process.īut first, check out this SYFY WIRE exclusive clip from Prank Encounters Season 2. And as the exclusive clip (below) reveals, not everything always goes according to plan, and sometimes there are variables not even the show's producers or Matarazzo himself can account for. Of course, human impulses lead to all kinds of unexpected scenarios. 'But I guess when you're put into a situation and you don't have a preconceived notion of what that situation might be like, and it ends up going south, your flight or fight kicks in.

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We want our pranks to be intricate and supernatural and action-packed, and full of visual special effects and really intense situations,'' Matarazzo told SYFY WIRE ahead of the season premiere about what he was pitched, and his initial doubt about how anyone might get sucked into the show's premise, which varies from prank to prank and episode to episode.

They said 'We want to go above and beyond. It's only when host Gaten Matarazzo ( Stranger Things) appears that they learn every other person they've been interacting with - except for each other - is an actor. Only as time passes, they slowly get immersed in the fictional premise the producers have created, until it starts turning into a scene straight out of a horror film.

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However, that's just what a few unsuspecting 'marks' end up encountering when they appear on the second season of Netflix's Prank Encounters.Įach episode of the series revolves around two complete strangers, both of whom think they're working a one-day-only temp job. First days at a new job can be nerve-wracking - and that's without the possibility of being sucked into some kind of demonic ritual or coming face to face with an unfrozen-yet-still-alive cavewoman who attacks everything she sees.

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