It was like, 'Wow, we're really going for it.''Īnnounced as a surprise reveal at the March premiere of X, Pearl takes viewers back six decades to 1918, to tell the story of the title character (Goth, who played the elderly Pearl under heavy makeup for X) and her descent into a particular kind of madness. I mean, forgetting the fact that we just made a movie that looked nothing like it three weeks earlier, it was just strange when you started seeing everyone in their costumes and everything. Once you start building it out, it starts speaking to you and kind of telling you where to go with it. 'We were obsessing over wallpapers and paint chips and things like that. 'It was strange because we only had about three and a half weeks to turn around the world of X into the world of Pearl, which is not very much time,' director and co-writer Ti West tells SYFY WIRE. But in many other respects, the two films are wildly different horror journeys, and that's all the more impressive when you consider that the cast and crew had less than a month to transform the film's set into a decades-earlier world. Yes, they even take place at the same location, a secluded Texas farmhouse with an alligator-infested lake nearby.
Yes, they take place in the same universe, and Pearl serves as the origin story of Mia Goth's elderly killer from the original film.
