Were they friends before getting cast in “The Hamiltons” as brother and sister?
MITCHELL: No, they didn’t know each other. Samuel Child, who played David, was in our film “Lurking in Suburbia” and was there at CineVegas when we met Joe. So the “Lurking” camp and the “Hillside” camp kind of just bonded and all of us became really great friends. We knew we wanted to work with Sam again, and then we brought in Corey Knauf (Francis Hamilton) who we found on the film that Adam Weiss penned. It was one of those things that when they all got together it became something really special. The twins immediately hit it off. They were great, and people were actually scared of them on set. PHIL: They kind of reacted as a family, they all hung out together. Joseph Mac really “punked” Corey, just as Wendell would “punk” Francis in the film. It kind of made him feel like he wasn’t welcome. So they brought a lot to the story. Without what they did, it wouldn’t have been the same film, for sure. “The Hamiltons” has a great twist at the end. How would you describe the film without gi
