What was it like working with the cat actors? Instead, he thinks of the cats as “having more of a connection to creative energy.” Despite the show’s loose references to the supernatural, “the cat-and-witch connection, I know this sounds insane, but it’s sort of coincidental,” Antosca says. “Like, obviously, it’s the right flavor for Lisa.” And while it’s not cherry-flavored, it’s not occult-flavored either. “The idea kind of seduced us from there,” he says.
“There’s something really satisfying about having a direct, I guess, descendant from that mother jaguar vomit up little, tiny baby kittens that are symbolic her inner strength and her power,” Zion says.Īntosca remembers his co-creator explaining how Lisa would give birth to kittens via her mouth. Lisa throws up white kittens as a symbol of her deep connection with the jaguar, who may or may not be related to her missing mother. The show alludes to Lisa having a familial connection to the white jaguar, who was eventually hunted down and made into a couch by Spanish poachers. For centuries, he has continued to stay alive by swapping bodies. When Boro later betrays her, mother jaguar leaves him for dead, and he jumps into the body of a young girl to survive. In the novel as well as episode six, Boro reveals that she’s actually the spirit of a 900-year-old South American man who after mating with a mystical white jaguar (also known as “mother jaguar”) takes on a bit of the cat’s power. Though kitty-barfing is not in Grimson’s novel, it does tie back to the big-cat mythology of the book. Where did the idea of having Lisa Nova vomit kittens come from?
To help viewers better understand the need for kitten-upchucking, we asked the Brand New Cherry Flavor creators to answer all our lingering cat questions. “It sticks with me like a trauma, and I have weird flashbacks to it.” When asked why watching Lisa cough up little white fur balls doesn’t trigger her, Zion repeats something Boro tells Lisa on the show: “It’s different if it’s a kitten.” She adds, “It’s sort of adorable.” “I actually remember every single scene where I’ve seen somebody vomit,” she says. She suffers from emetophobia: the intense fear of vomiting. To be fair, Zion, who came up with the idea, finds it a bit grotesque herself. Still, the two understand that some viewers might be a bit confused - and thoroughly horrified - by the kitten-puking plotline, which isn’t in the book. “For a show like this, finding the right idea is kind of like defining pornography: You know it when you see it,” Antosca says. Gaining a bit of notoriety online for cat-purging delights Antosca and Zion, who previously worked together on the horror anthology Channel Zero. Horror-heads seem deliriously giddy recounting the details of Lisa’s gastrointestinal pyrotechnics on Twitter - an impressive reaction from an audience famously unfazed by some of the grossest things ever put to film (hello, The Human Centipede). And if you died while watching it, it would eat you.” “It’s spiteful and kind of vicious, but it’s also very funny. “We think of the show itself as kind of catlike,” co-creator Nick Antosca tells Vulture on a phone call with creative partner Lenore Zion. In scenes both wonderfully gross and beautifully symbolic, Lisa spews slimy, just-born kitties from her mouth - and, in one harrowing instance, her abdomen. Yes, feline regurgitation has become the go-to social-media shorthand for Brand New Cherry Flavor. Forgoing all the traditional modes of revenge, Lisa goes straight to a mystical cat lady named Boro (Catherine Keener) for assistance, which comes at a steep and often macabre price: Lisa must vomit kittens as payment for Boro’s services. Based on Todd Grimson’s 1996 novel of the same name, the show focuses on up-and-coming indie director Lisa Nova ( Undone’s Rosa Salazar) as she endeavors to take down a pervert producer ( Unbelievable’s Eric Lange) who stole her movie.
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The new Netflix limited series Brand New Cherry Flavor, a gory revenge thriller set in the early ’90s, is straight up David Cronenberg on ayahuasca.
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