Mckenna Grace might only be 19 years old, but she has already done the work to be called a bona fide scream queen. The Haunting Of Hill House, Annabelle Comes Come, Malignant and the Ghostbusters movies have given her all kinds of cred in the genre, and her personally professed appreciation for the scary stuff means we’re likely only going to see that cred get further enhanced in the future (case in point: she’s in Scream 7 next year!). With that reputation, you might think that it was a specific effort from the folks behind Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 that led to her role in the new film – but the reality is that she metaphorically broke down doors so that she could land a role in the video game adaptation franchise.
One need only look at Mckenna Grace’s filmography and social media accounts to recognize her as a proper geek (a 100% complementary label), but when I spoke with her last week in advance of the home video release of Five Nights At Freddy’s 2, she explained that the horror video game is her number one passion. She explained that she made regular professional inquires when she learned that the first movie was in development a few years ago, and she clearly let the folks at Blumhouse Productions (the studio behind the films) know about her extreme interest. Grace told me,
