![]() While filming Hill House, she spent a significant number of hours jumping off of an 8-foot platform with a noose around her neck in order to enact her character’s suicide in Season 2 of the Netflix thriller YOU, she plays a toxically-in-love rich girl who’s later revealed to be a serial killer. Weed has become healing for Pedretti - a way to quiet her mind and “just get dumb for a second” after long days inhabiting dark worlds. And I guess if I'm high, so the f*ck what?" "And I guess if I'm high, so the f*ck what?" ![]() “But like, I don't need your pity for my anxiety. “They are right that I'm anxious,” she says, eyebrows raised. She admits she’s fallen into the trap of reading the comments section, “where people are like, 'Oh, she's so clearly anxious.' And other people are like, 'Oh, she's f*cking stoned.'" Though Pedretti says she's never high in interviews, it makes her uncomfortable to know that people are analyzing her - particularly because they’ve glommed onto some of her innermost vulnerabilities. Playing Nell Crain in Haunting’s first season The Haunting of Hill House was Pedretti’s first professional acting job, and coping with the pressure cooker of celebrity hasn’t come easy to her. “As you can see, I'm just trying to calm my nervous system all the time,” she tells me between wheezed laughs on a September Zoom call from Los Angeles, where she recently relocated after her lease ran out in New York City. ![]() It’s a feeling Pedretti, 25, has grown to know intimately in the two years since the Haunting anthology series thrust her into the public sphere. She is inured to the whims of anxiety, yet determined to control them. She calmly excuses herself from the two children she’s nannying and slips out the front door, finally surrendering to herself alone behind a topiary. Midway through the second episode of Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, Victoria Pedretti’s character Dani goes outside to have a panic attack.
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