Edie Falco on Getting ‘Silly’ and Shooting ‘Ridiculous,’ ‘Weird Stuff’ for Comedy Horror Film ‘The Parenting’: ‘It Was So Out of My Wheelhouse’

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Rosemary Rossi Nestled in the Massachusetts countryside, a cozy house that’s equal parts gorgeous and spooky was invaded by some of the entertainment industry’s most seasoned pros, including Edie Falco and Brian Cox — both playing just about as far from their usual casting as they can get — to film the horror comedy “The Parenting,” now on Max.

The duo plays a married couple invited by their gay son to a weekend away in a rented house to meet his boyfriend’s parents.

They soon find out that the house isn’t vacant after all, but rather haunted by an ancient demon looking for an earthbound host to occupy… and it finds an unsuspecting one in Cox.

This is quite a leap from Logan Roy, the role the classically trained Cox so brilliantly played on HBO’s “Succession.” In “The Parenting,” he gets to be downright silly — in a foul-mouthed, mischievous way. (In one scene, his possessed character struts naked into a room and orders everyone to “look at it!” while pointing to his nether regions.) Fans of Falco will also appreciate her take on light comedy — she goes so far as breaking into “the robot” dance to lighten the mood. “These are laugh-out-loud people, even off camera,” Falco says of the cast, which also includes Lisa Kudrow, Parker Posey, Nik Dodani, Brandon Flynn and Dean Norris. “We had a ridiculously good time.