Djimon Hounsou and Alex Wolff embrace silence in ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’

Actors Djimon Hounsou and Alex Wolff discovered unique challenges in their roles in the highly anticipated prequel, “A Quiet Place: Day One,” where silence is the key to survival against an alien invasion.

The two actors joined “CBS Mornings” Monday to talk about the prequel to the popular “A Quiet Place” franchise that explores the first day aliens invaded Earth.

“I mean, it’s my biggest challenge in the world to not talk. So I think it was very difficult for me to not just talk all the time,” Wolff said of the film’s minimal dialogue .

It was so difficult for him that he shared a humorous moment when he accidentally bumped into his Oscar-winning co-star Lupita Nyong’o and apologized loudly, despite the film’s requirement that he remain silent in order to survive .

“That shows how talkative I am,” he joked.

Silence is the key element around which the premise of the film revolves, as the creatures in this film hunt their prey through sound. “A Quiet Place: Day One” takes place in New York, a place that never sleeps.

“It was quite contradictory to the theme of our film, which is all about silence. And if you stay silent, you will live,” Hounsou said.

Hounsou, playing the character from “Man on Island,” returns to the world created by actor and writer John Krasinski. He played a minor role in ” A quiet place 2“.

In the new opus, his character’s story is further developed.

While the first two films featured families stranded in the middle of nowhere and struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, Hounsou said the latest installment would bring a new level of understanding to fans of the franchise.

“Seeing the first day, everyone who saw the first and the second will want to go back and see each one because it says a lot,” he said.

“A Quiet Place: Day One” hits theaters this Friday, produced by Paramount Pictures.