{"id":373242,"date":"2026-03-07T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/373242\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:12:10","slug":"mckenna-grace-breaks-down-her-big-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/373242\/","title":{"rendered":"Mckenna Grace Breaks Down Her Big Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t[This story contains major spoilers for Scream 7<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tTo say that Mckenna Grace<\/a> is booked and busy would be an understatement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Texas native collects coveted roles and franchise parts like Thanos amasses Infinity Stones or Tom Hanks stockpiles vintage typewriters. Depending on your criteria, the 19-year-old actor has starred in or appeared in as many as 14 projects involving established IP. Of course, it\u2019s a sign of the branded entertainment era that Grace grew up in, but that doesn\u2019t change the fact that she betters whatever story she\u2019s telling, whether it\u2019s as the central hero of Jason Reitman\u2019s recent Ghostbusters<\/a> movies or a supporting role in Kevin Williamson\u2019s Scream 7. (The latter just achieved a franchise-best opening weekend of $64 million domestic and $97 million worldwide.)<\/p>\n

\n\tOddly enough, Grace did not know which role she was playing in the seventh installment of the Scream franchise until shortly before filming started. She originally auditioned for another character \u2014\u00a0one can surmise it was Tatum Evans, Sidney Evans\u2019 (n\u00e9e Prescott) daughter \u2014\u00a0but being such a fan of the Wes Craven and Williamson-created series, she wanted in no matter what. After all, her fandom once inspired her to photobomb Neve Campbell and the original Scream cast at a convention years ago. Grace would ultimately play Hannah Thurman, Tatum\u2019s (Isabel May) friend and castmate in the Pine Grove High School musical that would lead to the end of her short life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI auditioned for another character, and they were like, \u2018We think you\u2019d really fit this one.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Okay, great!\u2019 But then I never got to know who that character was,\u201d Grace tells The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cWhenever you\u2019re a part of a film like this, they are so secretive with the script and with sides. Nowadays, it really does suck because there\u2019s leaks of everything, and security is really up now. So I didn\u2019t get the Scream 7 script, and I didn\u2019t know who I was playing [until shortly after my costume fitting].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor someone who played the primary hero<\/a> of Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire \u2014\u00a0and also has a plum role in Francis Lawrence\u2019s next Hunger Games chapter, Sunrise on the Reaping \u2014one would think that Grace would now rule out brief stints in Scream 7 or Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2. But she doesn\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m just so grateful for work. Am I going to turn down the chance of being in my favorite franchises? No. If I\u2019m going to be there for five minutes, why not? That\u2019s so fun,\u201d Grace says. \u201cIf I ever lose that feeling, then I\u2019m either doing something wrong, or I\u2019m not in the industry for the right reasons. I want to take good care of the characters, and even if I\u2019m there for a second, hopefully the fans of the franchise will feel a little bit more at ease knowing that somebody on the screen is also such a huge fan and is being thoughtful about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the state of Ghostbusters on the big screen, Grace hasn\u2019t heard any recent updates about a potential trilogy capper for Phoebe Spengler.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think there\u2019s always hope. Personally, I haven\u2019t heard anything lately. I\u2019d be more secretive if I had,\u201d Grace admits. \u201cI would always be honored to play Phoebe again, and whether it would be next year, I feel like I would have heard about it by now if I was. So my fingers are always crossed. As of right now, I have no clue, but I definitely think that it could be a possibility someday in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGrace has been something of a viral sensation in recent months. First, a red carpet interview<\/a> for Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 blew up because she became charmingly embarrassed in response to Josh Hutcherson learning about the extent of her admiration for his Hunger Games character. Then a red carpet interview<\/a> for 2016\u2019s Mr. Church resurfaced because the interviewer wrongly assumed a then-nine-year-old Grace was the daughter of one of the movie\u2019s actors, and not an actor herself.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs funny as these moments can be, Grace gets candid about the downside of virality after being a working actor for nearly 15 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have never gotten nervous on a carpet or in interviews until now. I did one interview at the Scream 7 premiere, and I was a nervous wreck. I was like, \u2018Oh my God, I probably said the wrong thing,\u2019\u201d Grace shares. \u201cIt\u2019s a really strange thing, truthfully. Every other week, the internet either loves you or hates you. One week, you\u2019re their darling, and they\u2019re obsessed with you. And then the next week, they literally hate you. I never know if something is going to be viral because everybody thinks it\u2019s funny or because everybody hates me this week. So it\u2019s a terrifying thing that can also be cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGrace adds: \u201cSome people are like, \u2018Just stay offline\u2019 But the internet nowadays is such a big part of what we do, unfortunately, that I can\u2019t really stay out of what people are saying about me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, during a conversation with THR, Grace also discusses her chart-topping collaboration with Ice Nine Kills for the Scream 7 soundtrack, as well as her newest role as Daphne Blake in Netflix\u2019s upcoming live-action Scooby-Doo series.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFrom partially dying in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire to really dying in Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 and now Scream 7, are you trying to die in every major franchise these days?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t(Laughs.) Honestly, with my track record recently, that\u2019d be a really funny bit if I come into every franchise for a second just to die.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd yet you survived Annabelle.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, it\u2019s fifty-fifty. You never know what you\u2019re going to get when you watch a film with me.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf the Ghostface triumvirate, do you know which one actually killed Hannah?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI remember grilling them on this question. I think it was Ethan Embry\u2019s character. That\u2019s what I heard, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to stick with because I\u2019m a fan of his.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Hannah is disemboweled, did they have a pack of goopy intestines strapped onto you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tOh my gosh, it was so nasty. I was wearing this fairy princess costume that was a corset, and I was wearing a stunt harness under the corset. Then I had this whole contraption that was strapped to my stomach, and it was basically a fake stomach with all these guts hanging out. It was so nasty but so fun. To carry my guts, they gave me this big orange Home Depot bucket that I had to walk around with on the day.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMckenna Grace as Hannah Thurman in Kevin Williamson\u2019s Scream 7.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tParamount Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tMy sister had the same back surgery as you, so I\u2019m always extra sensitive when I watch you do action on screen. Thus, how much wire work were you allowed to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI basically did all of it. They did do some stunt passes, but everything that [my stunt double] did, I think I did as well, except the huge swing up and drop down. That was probably for legal reasons, but I\u2019m always down to do everything, and I did do most everything on wires. I had to come in a month before shooting and do a week or two of rehearsals for all that. Then I was on wires doing the death portion of the scene for maybe three or four days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMy back is not \u201cnormal,\u201d but it\u2019s a new normal now. I\u2019m able to do stunts with it, but truthfully, it can be weird, sometimes. I\u2019ll get in a random position, and a sensation will just shoot down my leg. It\u2019s just the strangest thing, and you can never really tell. I\u2019ll be fine getting thrown around and into walls, and getting cut open all day. But then they\u2019ll put me in this one harness where my legs are also strapped up, and all of a sudden, I\u2019m like, I think I\u2019ve got to get out of this little leg cuff. So it\u2019s the most random thing, but my back is strong now. I\u2019ve got the metal rods and screws to back me up, and it\u2019s capable of doing stunts. It\u2019s truly a new normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI know the behind-the-scenes mechanics can sometimes ruin the illusion for you, but did you still get a rush seeing Ghostface on set for the first time?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tAbsolutely. I was so freaked out and so geeked and so excited. I\u2019m obsessed with our stuntman, Jeremy [Conner], who played Ghostface. Our whole stunt team was so great, and I\u2019m obsessed with all of them. I actually brought them cookies every day. I absolutely adore them. But besides being freaked out, my first thought when I saw Ghostface in the flesh was how sparkly his robe is. I was so surprised by that. It\u2019s glittery to make his black robe show up better on camera. So Ghostface is a diva, I suppose, because he\u2019s always covered in glitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDid you see the initial fan theory that Hannah was the killer because her plaid skirt was somewhat similar to plaid shirts worn by other killers in the franchise?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI did see that theory! It\u2019s just because I\u2019m blonde, but there was another theory that I could be Stu\u2019s [Matthew Lillard] daughter. I saw so many different theories, and I thought they were all very fun and creative. Whenever you\u2019re doing something new with a franchise that is a large IP or has a large following, it\u2019s always exciting to see what theories the fans come up with. They know their favorite franchises so well that they\u2019ll invent these really cool, smart theories, and you\u2019re like, \u201cShoot, why didn\u2019t I think that?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMckenna Grace, Celeste O\u2019Connor and Isabel May star in Scream 7.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tParamount Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tSomebody else compared your first outfit to Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan) in <\/strong>Scream<\/strong>, as well as one of Sarah Michelle Gellar\u2019s costumes in<\/strong> Scream 2.<\/strong> Do you think that\u2019s the more likely homage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tPossibly so. I tried on a lot of different outfits. To be honest, I did not know who I was playing prior to arriving on set. When I got to my fitting, everybody was saying, \u201cOh my gosh, your big scene is so cool.\u201d And I was like, \u201cMy big scene? Do I die? What do I do? \u201d So I had no clue about my death or who I was playing. They had all these itty-bitty mini skirts and crop tops at the fitting, and I was like, \u201cOh gosh, I\u2019m playing this girl. I\u2019ve got to lock in.\u201d (Laughs.) I definitely think that they wanted her to be reminiscent of Tatum, who had a very similar personality to Hannah. I think that they just wanted to pay homage to the first couple of films and those earlier characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDid you not know who you were playing because they were being overly secretive with the script?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWell, I auditioned for another character, and they were like, \u201cWe think you\u2019d really fit this one.\u201d And I was like, \u201cOkay, great!\u201d But then I never got to know who that character was. Whenever you\u2019re a part of a film like this, they are so secretive with the script and with sides. When I did Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2, I could barely access my sides for my scene in the morning because they were so locked down with the script. Nowadays, it really does suck because there\u2019s leaks of everything, and security is really up now. So I didn\u2019t get the Scream 7 script, and I didn\u2019t know who I was playing. All I knew was that I was getting to do something dramatic. But I was like, \u201cWhat could that mean? Do I die? Do I have a chase scene? I\u2019m not Ghostface. I feel like I\u2019d know that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo I got to the fitting I mentioned, and I picked up crumbs that I possibly have a big death scene. Then I finally sat down with Kevin, and he was like, \u201cI\u2019m so excited that you\u2019re playing Hannah.\u201d And I was like, \u201cYes, Hannah! So I\u2019m playing a girl named Hannah.\u201d And he was like, \u201cOh my God, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing?\u201d Then he walked me through everything over lunch. So I was over-the-moon ecstatic that I got to have such a cool, memorable scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI think we can all guess who you originally auditioned for.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\t(Laughs.)<\/p>\n

\n\tNeve Campbell, as Sidney, showed up at the tail end of Hannah\u2019s death scene, so did you get to meet her then?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI actually met her a few years ago at a convention. I\u2019m at a convention right now in fact. I work a lot of Comic-Cons because the films that I\u2019ve done have big fan bases, like Scream or Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2. So I get to meet the fans, which is always a highlight of my month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut I met Neve a few years ago because we were working at the same convention, and I snuck into the Scream cast photo op because I\u2019m such a big fan of these movies. So I took a picture with the whole cast, and now I\u2019m like, \u201cOh God, I hope they don\u2019t recognize me as the fangirl who snuck into their photo op.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I got to Atlanta for pre-production and stunt training and whatnot, I got invited to a dinner that she and Kevin and some of the producers had. It was very fun, and they\u2019d do little things like that. So I spent a good time getting to know Neve, and I\u2019m pretty sure that we all went to see Heart Eyes to support Mason [Gooding]. So I got to hang out with her and get to know her a little bit. She\u2019s one of the coolest women I\u2019ve ever met.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen were you allowed to watch the first <\/strong>Scream<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tHonestly, I would not be able to tell you. I never really had an age cap on horror movies. My parents were very young whenever they had me. I think my dad was 19 whenever my mom was pregnant. (Laughs.) So my dad was always my best buddy, and he would show me all the scary movies. I watched Alien at six, so he and I would always bond over scary movies and food. My mom would then come in and be like, \u201cWhat are y\u2019all doing? You can\u2019t watch It Follows!\u201d I remember we got in so much trouble for wanting to watch that. So my mom would always get mad at us, but I\u2019ve still been watching every horror movie I can get my hands on since I was very young.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey\u2019re finally shooting the sequel to <\/strong>It Follows<\/strong> this summer. It\u2019s been 84 years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI heard!<\/p>\n

\n\tI believe \u201cTwisting the Knife\u201d<\/a> is the heaviest song you\u2019ve worked on so far. When you got cast, did you throw it out there that you\u2019d love to do something for the soundtrack? Or did that conversation happen later? (\u201cTwisting the Knife\u201d has now topped Billboard\u2019s hard rock chart.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI always tend to throw that option out there a little bit. I\u2019ll sneak by the video village, and I\u2019ll be like, \u201cHey, by the way, at some point during production, I will probably try and pitch you guys a song.\u201d It\u2019s hard for me, truthfully, to release music with my work schedule right now because it\u2019s been so wild this year. I\u2019m so, so thankful and I feel so blessed for that, but it\u2019s hard to get new music out there in the midst of everything. So making music for films that I\u2019m in gives me a great chance to be able to release something.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTwisting the Knife\u201d was such an insanely cool opportunity. Ice Nine Kills reached out to me, and I\u2019m a big fan of their music. Another thing my dad and I bond over is metal music, and that\u2019s my favorite genre. So the opportunity to get to work on a heavier song with this band I\u2019m such a fan of for Scream 7, it was just such a perfect storm of things that I never thought I\u2019d get the chance to do. It was a dream song come true, and I\u2019m very thankful that Kevin liked it.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCeleste O\u2019Connor and Mckenna Grace star in Scream 7.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tParamount Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s so funny how you and Celeste O\u2019Connor play the same age in <\/strong>Scream 7 <\/strong>when Celeste played your character\u2019s older brother\u2019s friend in<\/strong> <\/strong>two <\/strong>Ghostbusters<\/strong> movies. You met when you were 12 or 13. Did the two of you have a laugh about this?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYeah, I was like, \u201cI can\u2019t believe that we\u2019re playing high school best friends. This is the funniest thing.\u201d I met Celeste when I was 12 or 13, so it was really fun getting to catch up and work together again. It\u2019s always cool getting to work with people that you know, especially at such wildly different points in time. You then have endless things to talk about whenever you\u2019re waiting around to shoot.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019d really be nice to have Phoebe Spengler\u2019s <\/strong>Ghostbusters<\/strong> trilogy completed. Is there still hope as far as you know?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI think there\u2019s always hope. Personally, I haven\u2019t heard anything lately. I\u2019d be more secretive if I had, but I would love to play Phoebe again. She was such a huge part of my career and also my childhood and teenage years. I grew up playing her. It was such an honor for me to get to be a part of Ghostbusters and help bring it to a younger generation. So I would always be honored to play Phoebe again, and whether it would be next year, I feel like I would have heard about it by now if I was.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNowadays, any franchise or any film has the opportunity to come back at any time, so I wonder when that would be. I just really hope I get to, and I know that there\u2019s always talks of doing more films whenever something has had some success or a big following. So my fingers are always crossed. As of right now, I have no clue, but I definitely think that it could be a possibility someday in the future.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMckenna Grace as Phoebe Spengler in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tColumbia Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tYou just shot a <\/strong>Hunger Games<\/strong> movie called <\/strong>Sunrise on the Reaping<\/strong>. Did the younger version of you who made Peeta fan edits have a rewarding experience?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYes. (Laughs.) For the rest of my life, I\u2019m never going to hear the end of these fan edits. It\u2019s the funniest thing. I was this awkward little teenager hiding out in the corners of sets, making fan edits of movies, specifically The Hunger Games<\/a>. And so to get to be a part of that was very mind-blowing. It\u2019s been a really, really crazy year of my life. It\u2019s always hard because I never want to come off as disingenuous whenever I say, \u201cThis is my dream job,\u201d but I\u2019ve now said it about seven different things. I have truly gotten to be a part of things that I\u2019ve been a fan of for years and years and years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Hunger Games was never my dream job because I didn\u2019t even think that it was in the cards for me. I didn\u2019t even think that there would be another Hunger Games movie that I could be a part of, but it has still been an obsession of mine for years. So to get to be a part of it in such a big way was so exciting and so cool and also so nerve-wracking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s been scary being a part of these franchises with big followings for such a long time. I always try to do my research because I am a part of these fan bases, and I know they are very intense. They want it to be done right, and I completely understand that. So I always get very nervous and try to do my research so I can perform to the best of my abilities without getting in my head about it.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was such an honor and such an insane experience doing Hunger Games. I\u2019ve never done anything like it, and I highly doubt I will have an experience this crazy again. I\u2019ll remember it for the rest of my life, and I definitely made lifelong friends on it. All year, my coworkers and I have been texting, \u201cI cannot wait for press to start.\u201d We can\u2019t wait to all be together again and get to actually tell our stupid stories from running around Spain or Germany. We did so many stupid things on that set and so many wild stunts. So we\u2019re all very excited to finally get to talk about it.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cool news doesn\u2019t stop there. You\u2019re about to go from voicing young Daphne in <\/strong>Scoob!<\/strong> to playing live-action Daphne in a new <\/strong>Scooby-Doo<\/strong> Netflix series. Are you on cloud nine about this?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tLike I said earlier, everything gets leaked nowadays. It\u2019s really, really crazy. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen this as well, but having been in the industry for a long while now, I\u2019ve never seen things get leaked as much as this day and age. It\u2019s like nobody wants anything to be a surprise anymore. It\u2019s hilarious. With Hunger Games, I auditioned for so long, and then the minute I got it, the press release dropped the next day. I was like, \u201cOh my God, I guess I got it. They really are tied to hiring me. It\u2019s out there now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWith Scooby, oh my God, I am so excited to talk about it finally. I have been after this project for so, so long. I am such a huge Scooby-Doo fan. I dressed up as Daphne multiple times for Halloween, and anybody who knows me knows that \u201cjeepers\u201d has been my expletive of choice since I played Young Daphne [in Scoob!]. It\u2019s such a fun thing to say, especially if you don\u2019t want to actually curse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSo to get to be playing the character who originated a saying that is a huge part of my vocabulary \u2014\u00a0and that I\u2019ve been so obsessed with for so long \u2014\u00a0is crazy. I did not think I was going to get it, and I still cannot believe that I get to play this character. This week alone, I\u2019ve watched, like, 15 Scooby-Doo movies. My brain is going to melt from watching so much Scooby-Doo, and I love it.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019ve been a viral machine lately, one of which was you being flustered that Josh Hutcherson <\/strong>found out<\/strong><\/a> about your Peeta fan edits. Red carpet <\/strong>footage<\/strong><\/a> of you as a little girl also went viral because the interviewer couldn\u2019t comprehend that you were an actor in Mr. Church. How do you process these occurrences?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s wild that I\u2019m coming up on 15 years of being an actor. In that time, I have never gotten nervous on a carpet or in interviews until now. I did one interview at the Scream 7 premiere, and when I walked off of that carpet, I was a nervous wreck. I was like, \u201cOh my God, I probably said the wrong thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a really strange thing, truthfully. Every other week, the internet either loves you or hates you. One week, you\u2019re their darling, and they\u2019re obsessed with you. And then the next week, they literally hate you. You\u2019ll be like, \u201cOh my God, this is such a funny interview I did.\u201d Then you open the comments, and you\u2019re like, \u201cOh my God, I wish I never read any of this. Some people are like, \u201cJust stay offline and don\u2019t read it.\u201d But the internet nowadays is such a big part of what we do, unfortunately, that I can\u2019t really stay out of what people are saying about me. Everybody has so many opinions on me and who I am.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut it\u2019s very funny and fun whenever it\u2019s things like [that old red carpet interview for Mr. Church]. I\u2019ll open my phone and see a new clip of me that\u2019s like circulating the internet, and I\u2019m like, \u201cWhy do people even care about this or care about who I am?\u201d So it\u2019s really funny having 15 years of me growing up in the form of random clips and hundreds of hours of footage on the internet. Some random video of me at nine years old goes viral, and I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat!?\u201d So it\u2019s funny, but terrifying at the same time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI never know if something is going to be viral because everybody thinks it\u2019s funny or because everybody hates me this week. So it\u2019s a terrifying thing that can also be cool. I\u2019m honored and grateful to be at the point in my career where people are even aware of who I am, and it\u2019s still hard for me to comprehend. I have such conflicting feelings about it. But I do always laugh whenever my friend\u2019s parents send me videos of nine-year-old me saying some stupid stuff on the carpet. I\u2019ll be like, \u201cOh God, why is this making the rounds?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I see your name on a movie, I don\u2019t expect you to be gone in five minutes like you were in <\/strong>Freddy\u2019s 2<\/strong>. You\u2019re a lead actor, and you could hold out for lead roles if you really wanted to. Are you not precious about the size of a role as long as it sounds fun and cool?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tNot really. I mean, I don\u2019t even see myself that way. I don\u2019t even think that I could. I\u2019m just so grateful for work. Am I going to turn down Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2? Am I going to turn down the chance of being in my favorite franchises? No. If I\u2019m going to be there for five minutes, why not? That\u2019s so fun. I shot like five or six films last year, and while it was honestly the most insane year of my life, it was so fun. All I\u2019ve ever wanted is to work. I\u2019ve been doing it since I was five. Working and being an actor is my favorite thing in the world, and it\u2019s what I\u2019ve dedicated my life to. All I\u2019ve ever wanted is to get to the point in my career where I can work all the time, and I\u2019m so happy with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHopping from project to project \u2014\u00a0and getting to do things that I\u2019m a fan of, whether I\u2019m there for five minutes or the whole movie \u2014\u00a0I\u2019m just so excited to be there. If I ever lose that feeling, then I\u2019m either doing something wrong, or I\u2019m not in the industry for the right reasons. I just want to do work that I can be proud of. And at the end of the day, I know that I put my all into it. I want to be a fan of the things that I\u2019m in, otherwise, what\u2019s the point? I want to take good care of the characters, and even if I\u2019m there for a second, hopefully the fans of the franchise will feel a little bit more at ease knowing that somebody on the screen is also such a huge fan and is being thoughtful about it.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, no, I really don\u2019t think about the size of the role whenever I\u2019m signing onto these films. It\u2019s more, Oh my God, I can\u2019t believe that I get to be a part of this in any capacity. I have been wanting to be in Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s since I was a little girl. Over the years, every single time I\u2019d take a meeting at Blumhouse or I\u2019d go to Blumhouse to say hi to people, I\u2019d ask about Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s. I even sent in a video to Scott Cawthon, the creator of Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s, and Emma Tammi, our director. I was just like, \u201cHey, you probably don\u2019t know who I am, but I\u2019m Mckenna Grace. I just wanted to send you guys a video. If y\u2019all have a character you want me to audition for, I will literally play a pair of shoes in the background of a scene. I would be so honored to be a part of this in any way. I would even be your shadow on set.\u201d So I\u2019m just a fan.<\/p>\n

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