‘Significant Other’s Maika Monroe: Why It’s ‘So Important’ To Her To Take On ‘Challenging’ Roles (Exclusive)

It’s Maika Monroe season, everyone. The histrion stars successful the caller Paramount+ movie Significant Other, which premieres October 7. The movie follows a young couple, Ruth and Harry, who instrumentality a distant backpacking travel done the Pacific Northwest, and things rapidly instrumentality a acheronian turn. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Maika astir what intrigued her about Significant Other.

Maika Monroe successful ‘Significant Other.’ (Paramount+)

“I had worked with the directors antecedently connected a movie called Villains, and I had specified an unthinkable clip moving with them. So erstwhile they came to maine with their adjacent project, I was already rather excited and conscionable hoping that I would emotion the script. I work it and conscionable benignant of fell successful emotion with it [and] fell successful emotion with the role. It was similar a blend of these antithetic genres that seemed incredibly challenging, but besides rather fun,” Maika said.

Significant Other was filmed connected determination successful Oregona, which Maika called a “dream.” The It Follows prima added, “You’re showing up to acceptable each time and successful the astir insane, beauteous scenery. We’re truly retired there, which means immoderate nighttime shoots until 6 a.m. and it’s pouring rainfall and you’re freezing, but you’re each successful it together.”

Maika co-stars alongside Emmy nominee Jake Lacy, who plays Harry. After Maika signed on, she discussed with the directors who would beryllium large for the relation of Harry. “There’s a batch of layers to it, truthful you request idiosyncratic who tin beryllium grounded, but besides comic but besides tin beryllium scary, each these antithetic things without giving excessively overmuch away,” Maika revealed. “I deliberation Jake’s sanction came up, and I’d precocious seen White Lotus, and I was conscionable like, ‘Oh, he’s cleanable for this. This relation was written for him.’ Like, I could perceive his dependable and his comedic timing conscionable fitting truthful perfectly into this. So I was conscionable like, ‘Oh my God, I anticipation that helium likes it and comes on.’ We were truthful fortunate to person him.”

Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy successful ‘Significant Other.’ (Paramount+)

In summation to starring successful the film, Maika is besides an enforcement producer. She admitted that she “definitely” wants to manager someday. “That’s thing that I’m starting to get into now. It’s ever been an interest, but still, I’ve got truthful overmuch to learn. But I’m decidedly funny successful behind-the-scenes, similar benignant of moving from the crushed up connected a project,” Maika told HollywoodLife.

Maika has a knack for not choosing casual roles, and she has carved a niche for herself successful the fearfulness and thriller genres with films similar Significant Other, It Follows, and Watcher. “I can’t power what is sent to me, but I power what I prime to do. I look astatine each task that I’ve done, and I truly consciousness similar I’ve grown a batch from it all. Challenging myself is truthful important and decidedly thing that I deliberation about. Especially with this project, it was a precise challenging,” Maika said.