Tiffany Haddish, Rosario Dawson, Jamie Lee Curtis.Photo:Kevin Mazur/Getty, Gary Gershoff/WireImage, Unique Nicole/WireImage
Kevin Mazur/Getty, Gary Gershoff/WireImage, Unique Nicole/WireImage
Rosario Dawson’s newHaunted Mansionmovie has a star-studded cast, but there was one performer in particular she was excited to work with.
As Dawson, 44, spoke with PEOPLE recently about State Farm’s newHaunted Mansion-themedproperty damage commercial— before theScreen Actors Guild went on strikeJuly 13 — she namedJamie Lee Curtisas one actress she and costarTiffany Haddishwere particularly excited to work with.
“Jamie, you know, me and Tiffany were definitely besides ourselves being around [her]," Dawson says, adding that working with the Oscar winner, 64, was part of “the beauty of” making the movie on location in New Orleans.
“We did get to actually spend time with each other that wasn’t just on set,” she says of the cast’s bonding sessions. “It was really beautiful how [director Justin Simien] kind of brought us together and gave us all crystals and we were reading the script together and just creating these nice moments.”
“Tiffany would have these house parties where she would be getting her nails and her henna done, and [Danny Devito] would come over with Jeff, our costumer,” Dawson tells PEOPLE.LaKeith Stanfieldeven hosted a game night, though Dawson says she was not able to attend.
Chase Dillon and Rosario Dawson in ‘Haunted Mansion’.Disney
Disney
“Chase kept throwing parties,” she adds of her young costar Chase W. Dillon, who plays her son in the movie. “Chase threw our wrap party. He’s so incredible. We just had fun.”
Dawson, who has grown acquainted with Disney productions through playing Ashoka Tano in recentStar WarsDisney+ series, adds that she called everyone in the cast to congratulate them on the film once she had seen the final cut.
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Jamie Lee Curtis in Haunted Mansion.Disney
“And Jamie texted me after she had seen it, you know, and just — we’re really stoked about it,” Dawson says of Curtis. She adds that she enjoyed getting to know Owen Wilson while working on the project, as well.
“I think it’s a really special film, and it is really different from the [2003Haunted Mansionmovie starring Eddie Murphy],” she adds. “It has a totally different vibe, and [Simien] will say it’s very Black, it’s very New Orleans.”
Tiffany Haddish in ‘Haunted Mansion’.Disney
The movie held its world premiere atDisneylandlast Saturday, though Dawson and her costars werenot able to walk the red carpetdue to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Haunted Mansionis in theaters July 28. State Farm’s new property damage commercial starring Dawson can be viewedhere.
source: people.com
