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Emma Grossman’s chaotic (and often murderous) antics volition proceed successful The Bad Seed Returns, which premieres September 5. Emma gets the accidental to commencement implicit astatine a caller school, but she’s going to beryllium intimately watched by Kat, played by Ella Dixon, who knows precisely what Emma is up to. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Ella astir Kat and Emma’s absorbing dynamic.
Ella Dixon stars arsenic Kat successful ‘The Bad Seed Returns.’ (Photographer: Deidhra Fahey)“Right away, you person that struggle with Kat coming successful and benignant of backmost into Emma’s life,” Ella said. “I deliberation Kat is incredibly tough, and she’s been done a batch successful life. There’s a batch of vulnerability to her that I deliberation she’s not rather letting connected about, and it’s that vulnerability that truly benignant of drives her ngo successful a mode to face Emma. It’s that struggle and that hostility that we spot passim the movie that truly benignant of puts Emma successful a information we’ve ne'er truly seen her successful before.”
Ella stressed that viewers volition spot Mckenna Grace’s Emma successful a “very antithetic spot than she wants successful the archetypal film. She’s surviving with her aunt. She’s benignant of acclimated to what it’s similar to beryllium a teenager. She’s a portion of the creation squad and navigating beingness arsenic a precocious schoolhouse student. In a sense, she’s overmuch much blended successful than we saw her successful the archetypal film, truthful you’re benignant of flipping the quality connected her caput a small bit.”
However, Ella adds that Emma is “much much unpredictable, and she’s overmuch much sly astir the mode that she goes astir things. Again, there’s conscionable that disruption that comes with Kat wherever we spot her successful a spot that’s precise antithetic wherever she’s truly met her match. I deliberation that’s going to play retired successful a precise absorbing way.”
Mckenna Grace and Ella Dixon successful ‘The Bad Seed Returns.’ (Lifetime)The young histrion was intrigued the astir by Kat’s “vulnerability” successful The Bad Seed Returns. “It was 1 of the biggest things I’ve learned arsenic good conscionable that successful each human, successful each situation, everything we ever do, stems from vulnerability of immoderate kind,” she continued. “It depends connected the idiosyncratic and however that vulnerability is expressed, but it’s ever there. To truly recognize that and statesman to research that wrong Kat and however that’s playing retired successful her beingness and her condition was truly almighty for me. I deliberation it truly helped successful my knowing of her and my knowing of the story.”
Despite Kat and Emma’s adversarial relationship, Ella thoroughly enjoyed moving alongside Mckenna. “McKenna’s specified a large idiosyncratic and specified a talented histrion and writer,” Ella told HollywoodLife. “To beryllium capable to stock the surface with her was truthful overmuch fun. She inhabits the relation of Emma successful specified a almighty way.” The Bad Seed Returns volition aerial connected September 5 astatine 8 p.m. connected Lifetime.
