{"id":956710,"date":"2026-11-03T12:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956710\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T12:06:17","slug":"mckenna-grace-says-shes-terrified-to-do-nudity-for-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956710\/","title":{"rendered":"Mckenna Grace Says She’s Terrified to Do Nudity for Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMckenna Grace<\/a> is getting candid about the types of roles she\u2019s not interested in at this point in her career.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 20-year-old actress, who next stars as Maysilee Donner in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, recently told Cosmopolitan<\/a>, \u201cI definitely don\u2019t do nudity or very hypersexual things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI respect anybody who can, but it\u2019s terrifying to me,\u201d she explained. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019ll ever change. It\u2019s not like I only do wholesome things \u2014 my character literally gets gutted by Ghostface in [Scream 7<\/a>] \u2014 but my dream is to try and be a Disney princess someday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGrace, who already has dozens of film and television projects to her name, rose to fame as a child actor. After landing her first commercial at age five, she quickly began making a name for herself before she was even a teenager with her roles in The Young and the Restless, Gifted, I, Tonya and The Haunting of Hill House, among others.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Regretting You actress also opened up about how she navigated the transition from kid to adult on set, admitting she enjoys having \u201ca bit more ownership\u201d over her roles now.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs a kid on set, you\u2019re expected to act like an adult until you\u2019re on camera. Then you\u2019re a kid until everybody is mad at you because you\u2019re acting like a kid,\u201d she said. \u201cNow it\u2019s cool to be an adult and be able to give my opinion and have a bit more ownership over characters. I\u2019ve really enjoyed sitting down with producers and pitching all my ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Grace gets settled into adulthood, she\u2019s already landed several major projects, from Regretting You to Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 to Scream 7, and she\u2019s now preparing for the global release of Sunrise on the Reaping<\/a> on Nov. 20.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen The Hollywood Reporter caught up<\/a> with the actress at the film\u2019s U.K. premiere in October, she admitted that taking on the role of Maysilee was \u201cdaunting and insane,\u201d especially after seeing all the early fancasts for her to play Haymitch\u2019s (Joseph Zada<\/a>) arena ally.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think that what eased some of the pressure was the fact that people seemed to respond mostly nicely to my casting, which is not always the case,\u201d Grace said. \u201cThat meant so much to me that the fanbase liked me as Maysilee because I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t even know if I like myself as Maysilee! How am I gonna do this justice?\u2019 Like, taking on something like this in a franchise that I care so deeply about and a character that means everything to me. It\u2019s been so daunting and insane.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mckenna Grace is getting candid about the types of roles she\u2019s not interested in at this point in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,32872],"class_list":["post-956710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-mckenna-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}