Lisey's Story director Pablo Larraín prepared by staying at Stephen King's house

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“I, personally, struggled at the beginning,” the Chilean filmmaker in an Apple TV+ featurette. “I wanted to take everything to a more grounded sort of space, where the narrative was more naturalistic or realistic. And he (King) was like, ‘No, you have to come to my world where all the things happen to the characters.”