'10 Cloverfield Lane' stars on the secrets behind the secret movie
10 Cloverfied Lane was so shrouded in secrecy that for months, even its stars didn't know the movie's actual title.
The thriller, produced by Star Wars: The Force Awakens mastermind J.J. Abrams, was originally dubbed Valencia -- and its stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr. all called it that until this past January.
"I didn't know until a couple hours before the trailer came out," Winstead tells Mashable. "Dan Trachtenberg, the director, called me up [and told me]."
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Winstead plays Michelle, a woman who's put in a shelter with two men (Goodman and Gallagher Jr.) after an alleged chemical attack blankets the outside world. Abrams has called the movie a relative of Cloverfield, his 2008 found footage monster movie.
The Cloverfield connection went over everyone's heads while they were making the movie, Gallagher Jr. explains.
"My sister was like, 'Why didn't you tell me you were in a kind of Cloverfield spinoff?'" he says. "I was like, if I had known, I would have told you."
Watch the interview above to learn more about how Trachtenberg, Winstead, Goodman and Gallagher Jr. navigated the secretive process, as well as the one word they'd each use to describe J.J. Abrams.
10 Cloverfield Lane will be released on March 11.
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Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.
