Samara Weaving Recalls Making a Child Cry During a Bank Robbery Scene: 'It Was the Worst Feeling' (Exclusive)

Acting, for Samara Weaving, is for illustration child’s play. “We get to do what five-year-olds do for a living,” she tells PEOPLE. “‘Let's conscionable beryllium rodeo clowns and beryllium silly.’”

At nan PEOPLE/EW and Shutterstock workplace astatine nan Toronto International Film Festival connected Sept. 5, Weaving, 33, is reflecting connected her world premiere astatine nan fest, Carolina Caroline. The romanticist crime thriller had nan Australian character playing make-believe successful each sorts of caller ways — including simulating slope heists. 

Some of nan robberies her characteristic Caroline commits onscreen are “funny and silly,” she says, “but nan first 1 we changeable was really intense.” Unfortunately, it was during that segment that Weaving, successful her words, “traumatized this young girl.” 

“They had a small woman location and I didn't realize, but it was her first clip ever connected set,” recalls nan Ready aliases Not star. “I'm talking to her and getting to cognize her… And past I move astir and I'm screaming bloody murder, being truthful terrifying.”

The young character “started bawling her eyes out… She ran out. We had to break for half an hour. It was nan worst emotion ever.”

Luckily, nan woman proved a speedy study. “By nan clip it came astir to her coverage, she was uncovering it truthful funny,” says Weaving. “She was conscionable giggling astatine maine going, ‘Ha ha ha. You're faking.’”

The Adam Carter Rehmeier-directed Carolina Croline costars Kyra Sedgwick, arsenic good arsenic Kyle Gallner arsenic nan con creator tempting nan titular characteristic into a life of crime — and a chaotic romance.

“You ne'er cognize erstwhile you get formed if you're going to person chemistry aliases not,” Weaver tells PEOPLE erstwhile asked astir her relationship pinch Gallner, 38. “But we met and we had nan aforesaid activity ethic and nan aforesaid outlook. And we conscionable had really bully chemistry and really sewage along.”

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Weaving, who precocious led nan films Borderline and Eenie Meanie (now streaming connected Disney+ and Hulu), besides has Ready aliases Not: Here I Come and Over Your Dead Body on nan horizon. Carolina Caroline does not yet person a merchandise day pursuing its Sept. 5 Toronto premiere. The show runs Sept. 4–14.