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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4<\/strong><\/a>) \u2014 Spooky season just got animated. Netflix is dropping \u2018Haunted Hotel,\u2019 a brand new adult comedy series that checks in just in time for fall chills and laughs. Tomatometer-Approved Critic and Celebrity Interviewer, Patrick Beatty, sat down with creator Matt Roller, along with stars Eliza Coupe and Jimmi Simpson, to talk about building this haunted hideaway where comedy meets creepy.<\/p>\n Patrick: When you\u2019re dealing with animation and you\u2019re working with talent, or you\u2019re yourself working on a character, is it more influential to see the actual art and the animation as opposed to looking at the character in the script, or does it depend on which story it is?<\/strong><\/p>\n Matt Roller:<\/strong> Oh, interesting. Yeah. I mean, it\u2019s very circular, but, you know, in the typical production process, the animation and especially the color animation come much later in the process. But later in the season, as we started to like, get animation back because you get episode by episode, we saw how they were like making the characters move and like, oh, they\u2019re giving us all these weird gestures. That helped change the writing, too. Yeah, it all feeds back on itself.<\/p>\n Patrick: Eliza, was there anything that you have you seen any of, like the scene so far, any of the episodes where a joke came out and you were like \u201cWait, I didn\u2019t think that was going to land as well as it did\u201d? <\/strong><\/p>\n Eliza Coupe:<\/strong> I think for me, it\u2019s always when we have to do all the grunting and all the running and panting sounds. You\u2019re like, \u201cIs that going to sound okay?\u201d as you\u2019re standing in a booth, just panting.<\/p>\n Patrick: I feel like a lot of the jokes come from the editing, too. Not just in the delivery, but how they end up shaping it for the whole overall story. If you were to have any type of side hustle, Jimmi, for your character in The Haunted Hotel, what do you think you would end up being?<\/strong><\/p>\n Jimmi Simpson:<\/strong> It would be probably about like dicing or slicing or some kind of food prep that needs sharp blades, doing exactly what Abadon would like to be done. You would find fascination in the precision of cooking.<\/p>\n Eliza Coupe:<\/strong> Like Abadon, all of a sudden, guest spots on the bear.<\/p>\n Jimmi Simpson:<\/strong> Amen, Amen. That\u2019s a great chainsaw massacre.<\/p>\n Patrick: Which of you would actually make a horrible hotel manager? <\/strong><\/p>\n Eliza Coupe:<\/strong> I micromanage every one of my life, so. Yeah. No, I\u2019d be fine.<\/p>\n Jimmi Simpson:<\/strong> Yeah, I would do relations. I\u2019m just not organizing anything.<\/p>\n Patrick: If you could put a classic monster character that you can put into this, who would it be? <\/strong><\/p>\n Matt Roller:<\/strong> Ooh, it\u2019s hard to think of. You know, I\u2019m thinking of, like, the universal.<\/p>\n Jimmi Simpson:<\/strong> I\u2019m thinking monsters of, like, the creature from the Black Lagoon to have, because there\u2019s so much. Not just that character, but how that costume was built, all that stuff. That\u2019d be cool.<\/p>\n Patrick: What is your favorite hotel amenity that you can\u2019t go without anytime you check in?<\/strong><\/p>\n Matt Roller:<\/strong> I like the bed. Yeah, the bed would. Yeah. If I weren\u2019t there, that\u2019d be kind of problematic.<\/p>\n Jimmi Simpson:<\/strong> It\u2019s the blackout curtains. Oh, yeah. Those are great. I mean, when you have off for work that has a night shoot, if you don\u2019t have that, you know, I don\u2019t sleep.<\/p>\n Eliza Coupe:<\/strong> I like water, good water, bottled water. They put, like, little bottles in hotels.<\/p>\n Haunted Hotel is streaming this week, just in time for spooky season, only on Netflix. For more celebrity interviews, make sure to check out See It or Skip It Fridays on News4Utah+.<\/p>\n