Camila Morrone Says Matcha Was Key to Her Chemistry with Adam DiMarco in “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen” (Exclusive)
Camila Morrone Says Matcha Was Key to Her Chemistry with Adam DiMarco in “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen” (Exclusive)
Julia MooreThu, March 26, 2026 at 6:57 PM UTC
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Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco in 'Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen'Credit: Netflix -
Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco star as engaged pair Rachel and Nicky in Netflix's new horror series, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
They clicked on their first day of filming, Morrone tells PEOPLE, because DiMarco walked in "holding a matcha"
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is now streaming on Netflix
The minute Adam DiMarco walked onto the set of Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, Camila Morrone knew they would get along.
Morrone, 28, and DiMarco, 35, star as engaged couple Rachel and Nicky in the new Netflix horror series, which traces the five-day countdown to their nuptials, alongside Rachel's ever-growing paranoia that something very bad is going to take place on her wedding day. They initially met on Zoom for a chemistry read, but their first in-person meeting was on the show's set — in the bedroom where their characters were staying for wedding week, which is nicknamed the "love cave."
"We went to meet in the love cave. Weronika [Tofilska], our director, was waiting for us," Morrone tells PEOPLE in a joint interview with DiMarco. "And I remember coming in, I remember exactly what you were wearing."
"You had a hat on. You were holding a matcha," she tells her costar. "And that's when I was like, 'I like you, because you drink matcha.'"
"Yeah, we're big matcha heads," DiMarco says.
Adam DiMarco and Camila Morrone in 'Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen'Credit: Netflix
There wasn't much time to dwell on their shared love of the drink, though. Morrone says they "went straight into the blocking of the love-cave scenes."
"We didn't get to hang at all before. We got no warm-up time," the Daisy Jones & the Six star adds.
It was admittedly a challenge for them to dive so quickly into filming, particularly given the nature of the relationship they were playing. "It is sometimes tough jumping into being like, oh, this is a many-year relationship," DiMarco says. "Cami helped a lot with selling the body language, physical touch aspect of the relationship."
She "initiated holding my hand before going into the scene, and I was just kind of like, 'Oh, you're right. Oh, right, we're fiancés," he says
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Morrone adds, "You're trying to be respectful of another actor and I think you have to just kind of have that conversation really early on. It's like, 'OK, we have never met, but these people really love each other, and they've been together, and they've been intimate, and we have to now come in with that energy.'"
"But I think also on the first day of the meeting, we're both being very trepidatious about each other," she says.
Camila Morrone, Adam DiMarco attend Los Angeles premiere of 'Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen'Credit: Presley Ann/Getty for Netflix
Despite the short turnaround time, the White Lotus star says it "felt pretty natural" to dive into things with Morrone. "We're locked in," she agrees.
He also gives kudos to his costar, who he says is the "true lead of the show."
"It's such a marathon and it's such an undertaking to be the true lead, and you really nailed it," he says. "You're so fun to watch."
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Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is "horror’s take on a woman becoming a wife," in the vein of Carrie being "horror’s version of a girl becoming a woman, and Rosemary’s Baby [being] the horrific version of a woman becoming a mother," per its official synopsis.
"Rachel is getting married in five days. Together with her fiancé, Nicky, she embarks on a road trip to his family's vacation home, secluded in a snowy forest, for the intimate wedding ceremony of their dreams. Which really would be so lovely, except ... prone to superstition and paranoia, Rachel can't shake the relentless feeling that something bad is going to happen," the synopsis continues. "Her foreboding doubts, coupled with a series of eerie coincidences and dreadful surprises, force her to ask the question: What makes two people soulmates? And worse — what could be scarier than lifelong commitment to the wrong person?"
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is now streaming on Netflix
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