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Entertainment October 10, 2016
Victoria Summer. Photography by Joe DeAngelis.The beautiful actress and model in the terrifying promos for the latest series of “American Horror Story” is too scared to watch the creepy show.
Victoria Summer was perfectly fine with having live beetles crawl all over her back in ads for the FX frightfest but the thought of actually watching the series brought her out in chills.
She explained, “I’ve filmed scary scenes in movies so see such things as just part of my job but I’m too nervous to watch horror when I get home. I know the show is great and has the top talent working on it but I only watch TV to laugh and learn, never to scare myself.”
Victoria, who came to the attention of AHS casting directors having impressed in movies like “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” “Saving Mr Banks” and latest film “Game of Aces” as well as modelling campaigns for Fiat, Samsung and Amazon spent three days at Warner Bros Studios in Los Angeles filming a series of scary promos for billboards, print, online and TV all designed to draw attention to the sixth series of American Horror Story, now screening on FX.
In the most memorable one she leans forward while beetles crawl along her naked back.
“At the audition they told me what would happen and I said I had no problem with that. I’m totally comfortable with my body, with insects and with work. I was thrilled to work for FX and at such an iconic studio. I had been there some years earlier as a tourist wishing I could have been one of the people working on the lot so this was a wish coming true moment for me.
“Friends were horrified when I told them my first day at work there was spent sitting naked with 15 beetles crawling all over me – but it was just another interesting job as far as I was concerned. While I’d rather it had been ladybirds on me, beetles are fine, they don’t bite and everyone was very professional. The studio masseuse was sent to give me a massage at the end of the day to send me home comfortable and ready for the next two days.”
Another of the promos saw her laying lifeless next to a bathtub with her face “removed” by special effects. “They painted my face black and glued a prosthetic over it. I was five hours in the make-up chair but it looked great in the end and I loved the artistry of the transformation. It’s made more inclined to do stuff like this in future.”
The Los Angeles based English rose’s never a dull moment acting career has seen her enter a catatonic state in “The Zombie Diaries,” drink blood in “Dracula Reborn” and duck for cover as a World War 1 era plane flew just over her head in “Game of Aces.” So scaring people in “American Horror Story” promos was something she took in her stride.
Off screen her main passions are supporting charities like Teen Cancer America and PETA and inspiring young women to live their dreams – just as she is living hers.
While watching horror is her idea of a nightmare, Victoria is all too happy to continue working in the genre.
“If people are scared when they see these AHS pictures that’s good because then I’ve done my job,” she added. “Now I’m happy to take on any other horror project – just so long as I don’t have to watch it.”
