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Teresa Palmer wanted to sleep with light on after 'Lights Out' filming

By Karen Butler
Teresa Palmer arrives for the Warner Bros. Pictures Presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas in April. File Photo by James Atoa/UPI
1 of 3 | Teresa Palmer arrives for the Warner Bros. Pictures Presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas in April. File Photo by James Atoa/UPI | License Photo

NEW YORK, July 18 (UPI) -- Australian actress Teresa Palmer says she understands why people are terrified by her critically acclaimed new horror movie Lights Out.

"Your eyes play tricks on you. I certainly know that mine did while I was filming. I would come home and be like, 'Let's just sleep with a night light on tonight.' My husband was like: 'This is crazy. You're in the movie, you see how it works. You know what's going on. Why are you so scared?'" the actress laughed in a recent phone interview with UPI. "But Diana has a way of getting into your nightmares and into your thoughts and just sort of implanting herself there. So, it can be really terrifying."

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Directed by David F. Sandberg and co-starring Maria Bello, Alexander DiPersia, Gabriel Bateman, Lotta Losten and Billy Burke, Lights Out opens nationwide Friday. The film follows a young woman as she attempts to unravel the mystery of a malevolent spirit, which hates light and plagues her family when the sun goes down.

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