‘A Friend Of The Family’ Exclusive: Mckenna Grace Breaks Down Jan & B’s ‘Complicated’ Relationship

Mckenna Grace is stepping into the relation of Jan Broberg starting successful occurrence 5 of A Friend of the Family. The young histrion spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife astir her mentation for the relation and moving alongside Jake Lacy, who plays Jan’s kidnapper Robert “B” Berchtold. Mckenna admitted that it was a “really analyzable and layered happening to effort and portray.”

Mckenna Grace arsenic Jan Broberg. (Peacock)

Mckenna called Jake “one of the astir unthinkable actors” she’s ever worked with and ever felt “so safe” moving with him. In bid to dive deeper into Jan and B’s analyzable relationship, she would work Jan’s aged diary entries and the letters written betwixt Jan and B.

“Their full narration they were truthful close, but it was besides based disconnected of fear,” Mckenna said. But it’s conscionable Jan didn’t wholly know. Does she emotion him? She does. She truly did emotion him and attraction for him truthful much.”

She added, “I conscionable deliberation that that is what makes it truthful overmuch much heartbreaking, [which] is that she truly did attraction astir him and spot him. That’s wherefore it’s conscionable truthful important to look retired for these things and to beryllium capable to person an consciousness and cognize these types of stories. But it was a truly analyzable happening to play and fig retired with Jake, but I’m truthful fortunate to person had Jake arsenic a country spouse and a co-worker, and a person and to beryllium capable to speech with Jan astir it.”

Jan, whose real-life communicative is the ground for the show, serves arsenic a shaper connected the series. Mckenna admitted that she “wanted to beryllium close” to Jan to beryllium capable to represent her properly.

Jake Lacy arsenic Robert “B” Berchtold. (Peacock)

“That was my biggest happening signing onto the relation was making definite that she was a large portion of telling the communicative and making definite that she was good with it,” Mckenna said. “I wanted to marque definite that everything that I was doing was close for her due to the fact that playing a real-life idiosyncratic is already scary, but it meant a batch however unfastened and honorable she was with maine and however unfastened and honorable she was with each of us. It was amazing. All of america would speech astir it connected acceptable aft talking to Jan oregon aft having her travel and sojourn acceptable and speech to each of us. She’s conscionable truthful well-spoken and superb and strong. It’s astonishing to see. She’s specified a chill person, and I’m truthful blessed to person her successful my beingness conscionable successful general. Not adjacent with playing her… I’m conscionable blessed to cognize her.”

The Peacock series chronicles the Broberg household arsenic Jan is kidnapped aggregate times implicit a play of years by their charismatic, obsessed household friend. B weaved a tangled web that impacted truthful galore radical astir him.

Mckenna noted that she’s “honored” to beryllium a portion of thing that is not lone telling her communicative but besides creating an awareness. Watching this, I anticipation radical larn a batch astir manipulators and astir these types of radical due to the fact that it’s precise casual to beryllium backmost and ticker thing and say, ‘If that happened, if that was me, this would person ne'er happened. I would person ne'er made that decision.’ That’s truthful casual to accidental and to justice idiosyncratic based disconnected of what you hear. But honestly, you ne'er know. It could hap to immoderate of america from anyone that we know. I anticipation that watching the amusement that radical volition learn.” New episodes of A Friend of the Family driblet Thursdays connected Peacock.