A Shot-By-Shot Breakdown of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Scene That Genuinely Freaked Out the Cast

We've all heard the urban legend of the scary stuff that will happen if you say "Bloody Mary" into a mirror three times. That includes the cast of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but they did it anyway for a crucial scene in the show's final season, when Sabrina is trying to get the gang back together using a bit of faux-scare fun. Knowing it was supposed to be a ruse didn't make it any easier for them to put the legend to the test.

In this shot-by-shot breakdown of that scene, the actors involved explain that they actually found themselves pretty freaked out while shooting it.

"I did feel a little scared saying 'Bloody Mary' in the mirror, because in my childhood, that was like a thing," Ross Lynch says. "You'd go in the bathroom, and you'd turn off the lights. I actually never did it because I was always afraid that I was actually going to see something in the mirror."

Kiernan Shipka echoesthat sentiment. "It just feels like you shouldn't be doing that. We were saying it a lot! We were doing this for half a day!" 

"I heard stories of when people would do spells on set and there was just like a little bit more of a wind blow," Lachlan Watson says. "Like when Miranda [Otto] would be doing an incantation, the wind would just pick up. Woo! We had some sort of power. So it was a little freaky. I was a little scared."

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is now streaming on Netflix.

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