For years now, Samara Weaving has been in my Mount Rushmore of modern-age scream queens, having steadily crushed roles in high-quality variety of horror movies. So every time she joins a new one like the excellent Ready or Not 2, I’m readily standing at attention like a bloodthirsty pup. That hasn’t been the case as much recently, however, as she’s too busy joining other projects about things I love dearly. First, she was recently confirmed to have joined the MCU’s X-Men cast. And now it’s been reported that she’s in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda movie.
It’s like she (or her agent) has a direct line into my pop culture-sopped brain that lines her up with whatever 2026 movie or 2027 release can makes the most synapses happen. (Not that I’m actually so self-centered that I’d think anyone’s management team has or wants access to my brain.) I’ve been looking forward to a Legend of Zelda movie at least since 1993’s Super Mario Bros. first warded Nintendo away from movie adaptations for decades, and wasn’t entirely sure how many of the upcoming video game adaptation’s cast members would be revealed before the first trailer drops.
