Apartment 7Ahit Paramount+ last calendar week — readio9 ’s reviewhere — and if you ’re a lancinating - eyed devotee of Roman Polanski’sRosemary ’s Baby , you would have noticed a scene midway throughNatalie Erika James ’ prequelthatseemsto be set up a moment of direct intersection between the two films . Until … it does n’t . In a new interview , James explain the behind - the - scene intellect why that materialize .
Just in case you were savingApartment 7Afor your October movie inclination :
The scene inApartment 7Astarts off as the mirror image of a scene inRosemary ’s Baby . It ’s when Rosemary ( Mia Farrow ) and Terry ( Victoria Vetri inRosemary ’s Baby ; Julia Garner inApartment 7A ) share a pleasant New World chat in the laundry way . Rosemary and her husband have just moved in , and she ’s proud of to meet another young woman living in the Bramford . Terry explains she was helped out of a bad situation by senior couple Roman and Minnie Castevet — Rosemary ’s new neighbors — and they ’ve given her a place to survive because they ’re just the kindest people ever .
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Rosemary and her new friend consort to do their laundry together again because the cellar is creepy as snake pit . Tragically , however , their next encounter is also their last : Rosemary and Guy just come about to be strolling by when Terry falls to her death from the Castevets ’ apartment .
InApartment 7A , however , the laundry elbow room scene comes too ahead of time in the movie for Rosemary even be at the Bramford ; the old tenant , Mrs. Gardenia , is still living in Rosemary ’s succeeding apartment . ( In James ’ film , we learn a bunch more about that flora - loving lady , and the sinister reason she departs the construction . ) Also , the conversation does n’t go on ; Terry discover a light-haired woman with pigtails ( Rosemary before her famous pixie snub ) doing her washing , but they do n’t interact .
At the end ofApartment 7A , Terry still see her destruction in the same way , and Rosemary and Guy are once again horrified looker — but she is a full stranger to them .
Speaking tothe Hollywood Reporter , James discussed the delicate line she had to walk , drawing brainchild first from Ira Levin ’s novel , but also , inevitably , Polanski ’s film too .
“ One of the big consideration was make certain that there was a interval between [ flat 7A ] and the original motion-picture show ’s creators not being involve in this one , ” James assure the trade . “ So we had these discussions prior to start a redraft of the book . We also tried to cite Ira Levin ’s original book as much as we possibly could and use that as source material . But , at the same fourth dimension , because the original flick is so iconic , it ’s kind of an unavoidable comparison . ”
As for that specific scene , “ I was always really conscious of the fact that there were already so many parallels to the original photographic film , and we were making these really witting decision about using the Bramford and keeping sure blueprint feature very consistent , ” James say . “ But I really shied away from want to show Rosemary ’s face or any variety of interaction . It mat , strangely , like a step too far to just recast Mia Farrow , even though Minnie and Roman are reimagined in their mode . ”
She harmonise with the THR interviewer who pointed out the setting occurs too early in the movie for the womanhood picture to in reality be Rosemary . Originally , the music director said , the laundry way sojourn was slated to occur afterward in the film , meaning the timelines would have describe up more accurately — but an editing choice was made to bump it up . “ So you ’re right about the lack of continuity from the master with Mrs. Gardenia still being around . In the edit process , there ’s always things that have to be change over to well order the story , so , unluckily , that was one of the sacrifice . ”
See the panorama and imagine a re - re - edited version for yourself : flat 7Ais now streaming on Paramount+ .
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