Mckenna Grace Teases ‘Bad Seed’ Sequel & Admits Original Script Was ‘Too Dark’

Talk astir a father-daughter duo. Some quarantine brainstorming led Mckenna Grace and her dad, Ross Burge, to constitute The Bad Seed sequel, The Bad Seed Returns. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Mckenna astir the film, and she revealed that the archetypal publication she wrote with her dada was “too dark” for Lifetime.

Mckenna Grace arsenic Emma Grossman. (Lifetime)

“What I find truly comic is that the scripts that my dada and I presented Lifetime with, it was excessively dark, truthful they brought successful different writer to benignant of code down our acheronian a small bit. The publication that my dada and I primitively presented was excessively dark,” Mckenna said.

While Mckenna is simply a full-time actress, her dada is an orthopedic surgeon. Both Mckenna and her dada wrote and enforcement produced the film. Mckenna noted that penning The Bad Seed Returns with her dada was a “really cool” acquisition to get to bash together. “I truly emotion my dad. He’s truthful superb whenever it comes to movie things. He’s specified a large movie geek. It was truly chill to beryllium capable to bash that with him,” she told HollywoodLife.

The Bad Seed Returns picks up aft a several-year clip jump. After a murderous rampage successful the archetypal movie, Mckenna admitted that Emma has been “laying low. The happening with Emma is that I don’t deliberation she’s sidesplitting conscionable to kill. That’s not Emma. She’s smarter than that. If there’s a occupation successful her life, past she removes it. It’s arsenic elemental arsenic that. There haven’t truly been immoderate problems. She’s been surviving with her aunt. Her aunt’s gotten joined and conscionable precocious had a babe truthful present she’s benignant of successful this weird household mounting that she’s not utilized to and problems commencement presenting themselves successful Emma’s beingness and that’s erstwhile she gets to shine.”

Mckenna Grace successful ‘The Bad Seed Returns.’ (Lifetime)

The 16-year-old actress/singer, who volition beryllium returning for The Handmaid’s Tale play 5 and starring successful the upcoming bid A Friend of the Family, isn’t going to halt penning immoderate clip soon. Mckenna revealed that she and her dada are “in the opening processes of trying to transportation a amusement that we wrote. I person been penning a publication with a person and 1 with my dada truthful it’s been beauteous cool.”

As for a 3rd Bad Seed movie, Mckenna isn’t ruling it out. “I mean, maybe. We’ll see. Only if I get to nonstop it,” she quipped. The Bad Seed Returns premieres September 5 astatine 8 p.m. connected Lifetime.