Lachlan Watson dishes on ‘Y2K,’ becoming buds with Fred Durst & why they defend ‘The Silence Of The Lambs’
Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney’s clever new horror-comedy Y2K imagines what would happen if our worst turn-of-the-millennium fears came true.When the clock strikes midnight and the calendar changes to January 1, 2000, the tech apocalypse begins, and suddenly it’s up to a rag-tag group of teens to save the world from total robot takeover.As Ash, a teen with a totally late-’90s love of Nu Metal music, Lachlan Watson plays one of our unlikely heroes.
And, sure, they may not have any memory of the real “Y2K” era—Watson was born in 2001, after all—but it’s clear they’ve done their homework, eager to do justice to our (very recent) history.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.In fact, Watson’s not just a student of 2000s fads and trends (their love of Limp Bizkit comes in handy, considering they share a number of scenes with frontman Fred Durst in Y2K), but of pop culture history in general, particularly through the queer lens.Known for their standout roles in series like Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina and Chucky, Watson’s also quite the horror buff, and seemingly spends even more time thinking about the genre’s queer appeal than we do here at Queerty—and that’s saying something!All of which is to say, the young nonbinary performer is the perfect guest for our rapid-fire Q&A series, Dishin’ It, where they’re free to geek out about their obsessions, from classic monster movies, to The Silence Of The Lambs, to, yes, even Limp Bizkit.
