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    Meet the young stars of 'Hereditary,' who braved the emotional 'meat grinder' for the year's most devastating horror movie

    by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Jun 15, 2018 5 minutes

    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "Hereditary" director Ari Aster got the "kamikaze" performance he asked for out of star Toni Collette, who's earning early Oscar buzz for her turn in the A24 psychological horror hit. But the Australian-born actress wasn't the only one who went through the ringer for the devastating descent into the terrors of familial trauma.

    "The whole movie was like one marathon; you just kept putting yourself in the meat grinder," says Alex Wolff, the 20-year-old actor whose exquisite unraveling opposite onscreen mom Collette anchors some of the most harrowing scenes in Aster's critically-acclaimed feature debut.

    Wolff can smile about it now, sitting in the suite of a Beverly Hills hotel a year removed from the "Hereditary" shoot. The former Nickelodeon star, who also appeared in the recent blockbuster "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," is gregarious and quick to self-deprecating quips even as he admits he dove

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