{"id":2357326,"date":"2026-04-03T18:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2357326"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:22:21","slug":"adam-dimarco-on-something-very-bad-is-going-to-happen-curse-nicky-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/adam-dimarco-on-something-very-bad-is-going-to-happen-curse-nicky-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam DiMarco on ‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Curse, Nicky, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following story contains spoilers through the end of Netflix’s <\/strong>Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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YES, SOMETHING VERY<\/strong> very bad does indeed happen at the end of Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen<\/em><\/a>. Throughout the course of its eight episodes, the Netflix horror series from creator Haley Z. Boston masterfully ramps up the creepy vibes in the days leading up to a young couple\u2019s wedding at the groom\u2019s family cabin in the woods. We\u2019re not the only one feeling mounting dread\u2014the bride, Rachel (Camila Morrone) can\u2019t shake an ominous feeling. It\u2019s not just that she doesn\u2019t really believe in the institution of marriage, but something even worse that she can\u2019t put her finger on. It doesn\u2019t help that the groom, Nicky (Adam DiMarco), despite seeming like an eminently good guy, has one hell of a creepy family.<\/p>\n

By the time she walks down the aisle, Rachel learns that her family is cursed: Any member of her bloodline that gets married must get married to their soulmate by sundown on their wedding day, or else they die a gruesome death. The same curse killed her mother in horrifying fashion, and if she isn\u2019t absolutely sure that Nicky is her soulmate, it\u2019ll take her too. But by the time she finally makes it to the altar, it\u2019s not something supernatural that kicks off the horror, but something more quotidian: cold feet. Nicky, learning that his parents\u2019 \u201cperfect\u201d relationship wasn\u2019t all that, finally comes around to Rachel\u2019s stand on marriage. Being the \u201cgood guy\u201d that he is, he decides to give her what she (no longer) wants: being together without getting hitched. In so doing, he activates a clause in the curse that sends it ripping through everyone in his bloodline, most of whom happen to be gathered at the wedding, and damning Rachel to become an immortal \u201cwitness\u201d to the curse\u2019s continuation.<\/p>\n

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It wasn\u2019t DiMarco\u2019s first time playing a guy so determined to be one of the good ones that he ended up being one of the not-so-good ones after all. \u201cWhen people were watching White Lotus<\/em>, they also thought that maybe Albie would have been the killer,\u201d he says. \u201cHe still had a bit of a shift and a journey, but not as big as this one.\u201d To him, the characters share a tragic flaw: They\u2019re people pleasers who aren\u2019t mature enough to realize that being candid and forthcoming is better in the long run. \u201cI think as you get older, you have to learn to kill that part of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the show\u2019s bloody finale, we talked to DiMarco about how they survived the gory nights of filming, what the hell Nicky was thinking, and how even he was spooked when he first read the script. \u201cDon’t watch the show during the daytime,\u201d he says. \u201cYou have to watch it at night with the lights off.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MEN\u2019S HEALTH: This show is so good at building up tension, releasing it, and building it up again into a crescendo. Was it as tense on the page as it was on the screen?<\/strong><\/p>\n

ADAM DIMARCO: <\/strong>I\u2019d never really been spooked while reading a script before. But the writing was incredible. These characters, the story, it all had such a unique tone. It actually scared me when I was reading it. And Haley used all these cool, creative techniques in the way she formatted the script\u2014like every time the word blood was mentioned, it was written in red. Sometimes reading scripts can feel like a lot of the same thing, but this made for a really fun, novel experience.<\/p>\n

MH: Was there a scene that really hooked you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD:<\/strong> I remember reading Portia\u2019s monologue about the \u201cSorry Man\u201d in the first episode and just thinking, How are we going to justify this? What’s the explanation going to be?<\/em> The description of a man cutting a woman open from the inside and saying \u201cI’m sorry\u201d over and over with a downturn smile? I don’t know! And then when I read episode 4, the way Haley actually made it make sense\u2014shifting that imagery into a kind of emergency cesarean described through the eyes of a child who\u2019s scared and confused, who exaggerates the details, but with the facts of the story mostly staying the same\u2014it was all really freaky. After I read that, I had full trust in her.<\/p>\n

MH: Portia\u2019s monologue is a great example of how the Cunningham family can oscillate between being scary then normal, menacing then comforting, sniping then funny. How did you guys naturally weave through that dynamic? <\/strong><\/p>\n

AD:<\/strong> I was talking to a friend who’s watching the show right now, and he said everyone’s kind of in a different movie, no two people are playing the situation in the same way. Yet the way the show is shot, the lighting, and music, it all comes together and is tied cohesively by that creepiness factor. When I was on set with Jennifer Jason Leigh, I never really noticed her being creepy at all. When we were on set, she was just my very loving mother, at least in the scenes I had with her. And then when I was watching the show back, I thought, Oh, wait, you’re really scary in this!<\/em> I guess when I looked away, she became scary!<\/p>\n

MH: The show also sends Nicky away just in time to miss some of his family\u2019s more disturbing behavior.<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD:<\/strong> For sure. I felt like I was just in a relationship drama a lot of the time. I didn’t really feel like I was in a horror\u2014until the end.<\/p>\n

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MH: The final episode is an absolute massacre. How long did it take to shoot?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD:<\/strong> God, unless you were scratching numbers into the wall, it was hard to tell how many days it had been. It might have been two days or two months. There was a domino effect to the schedule where every day we would start later and end later because the previous day started later and ended later than the previous day. Time just passed really weirdly.<\/p>\n

All the background performers were really the MVPs. They were covered with fake blood for days, and it was so uncomfortable. I have this memory of Jeff [Wilbusch, who plays Nicky\u2019s brother Jules] going around with a spray bottle to help make the blood less sticky. I’ve never been around that much fake blood before. They shipped it in from somewhere. Europe, I think? It was so slippery at first, then it would get so sticky. Either you’re slipping and getting covered in blood when you weren\u2019t supposed to get bloody yet, or your shoe would stick to it and your sock would come out.<\/p>\n

MH: It\u2019s no surprise, given the name of the show, that the audience is always nervously waiting for another shoe to drop. When Nicky bails on his vows, how did you approach making it both a twist and a natural move for his character?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD:<\/strong> It was definitely a challenging beat to play. He thinks he’s making this grand romantic gesture, rejecting his family in order to save his relationship with Rachel. His mind is really made up. His parents didn’t have the relationship he thought they had. He\u2019s dealing with his mom\u2019s betrayal. It’s all simmering up until that last moment. It takes him the whole season to come around to where Rachel was at the beginning. But they’ve swapped places at the end. They just can’t get on the same page.<\/p>\n

MH: It\u2019s telling that Nicky\u2019s romantic gesture is what dooms the woman he says he loves. There\u2019s something about that that reflects a wariness of guys who think of themselves as the \u201cnice guy.\u201d Are you attracted to playing that kind of contradiction?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD:<\/strong> It’s just always interesting watching or playing flawed characters, people who are trying their best to be good but falling short. He\u2019s just such a people pleaser. I think both of these characters are, at least towards each other. The horrors of being a people pleaser. You just find yourself in situations that you don’t want to be in. You’re doing things that you don\u2019t want to do. We see where that gets you in the end.<\/p>\n

MH: When Nicky finally completes his vows with Rachel, does he think he\u2019s sending the curse back to her and saving his family, or does he think it\u2019ll somehow erase what he did?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD:<\/strong> I think Nicky still believes that Rachel is his soulmate, which is why he doesn’t die. And I think he was hoping that part of her also believed it deep down, and that she wouldn’t\u2026 you know. It’s the only way I could approach the thought of playing that moment.<\/p>\n

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MH: That\u2019s a romantic interpretation! It\u2019s interesting to me that in the end, the only survivors in the Cunningham bloodline were the men. They seem to have found their soulmates, even when it wasn\u2019t reciprocated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD:<\/strong> I didn’t even realize that until you just said it. The Cunningham men are all romantics at heart, I guess. I think Nicky believes what he said during the wedding, that it\u2019s about waking up every morning and choosing this person. To them, it\u2019s about the choice. You can only control your choice. To him, the soulmate connection comes down to your soul choosing another soul, I think.<\/p>\n

MH: We end the season with Rachel as the new \u201cWitness\u201d and the curse potentially lying dormant in the Cunningham bloodline. Will we see a second season?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD: <\/strong>I have no idea. And even if I did, I don’t think I’d be allowed to say!<\/p>\n

MH: There\u2019s something about what Rachel says to poor little Jude\u2014\u201cI\u2019m sorry that this happened, but remember that it happened\u201d\u2014that gives me hope. Or should I say dread?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD: <\/strong>That would be an interesting season 2\u2014a time jump to his wedding.<\/p>\n

MH: We leave off with Nicky as he watches Rachel, who he saw dead the night before, walk into his room, get her stuff, and finally get the hell out of Dodge. What\u2019s going through his head?<\/strong><\/p>\n

AD:<\/strong> To me, in that moment, he’s just in shock and disbelief. Just catatonic. At that point, after you\u2019ve watched something kill most of your extended family, there\u2019s not much else left to do but grab a teddy bear and get into bed with your shoes on.<\/p>\n

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Watch Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen<\/em> on Netflix<\/a><\/p>\n

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