Anna Camp on the satanic fear her character faces in Hysteria!

Anna Camp sat down with us to talk all about her most recent role in the Peacock tv series Hysteria! The show is set during the 1980’s when a ‘Satanic Panic’ overtakes a small town in which her character lives with her daughter. In playing Tracy, she found a woman who so desperately wants to connect with her daughter and feel loved, but who is so tightly wound in her religious convictions that she struggles to do so.

In taking on the role she only had the first few scripts when they began filming, but once she received scripts for later episodes this answered a lot of questions about Tracy’s past and relationship with her own parents. In seeing how she had been raised in a similarly religious environment where she rebelled as a teenager, it was clear that there was a lot of fear in her daughter following down that same rebellious path but not turning back like she did.

Whilst the character was very different to her beloved Pitch Perfect character, she did find a few similarities in two characters who are both very tightly wound as people.

Anna spoke about how she has sought to make very specific choices in her career, especially in recent years where she has also taken on projects as a producer as well as an actor. A lot of this stems from wanting to look for projects and stories which will allow her to challenge herself creatively and to take on roles which are different from what she has played in the past. All something which she found in playing Tracy in Hysteria!

Watch the full conversation below:

Q&A on the Peacock series Hysteria! With actor Anna Camp. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company.

Follows a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts who use the town's sudden interest in the occult to start a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a strange series of events triggers a witch hunt that leads back to them.