Allister Foster/LifetimeThe Bad Seed Returns
Lifetime
Premieres: Monday, Sept. 5 at 8pm ET/PT
Who’s In It? Mckenna Grace, Mila Jones, Benjamin Ayres, Patty McCormack, Alexander Molony, Ella Dixon, Michelle Morgan
What’s It All About? Mckenna Grace is one of Hollywood’s most in-demand stars, with an Emmy nomination for her work on The Handmaid’s Tale already under her belt — all before being old enough to drive! In the 2018 film The Bad Seed, psychopath Emma Grossman was responsible for the deaths of classmates, her babysitter and eventually her father (played by Rob Lowe). The sequel brings up a new dynamic for Emma as she deals with teenage angst as well as her new household situation, now living with her aunt and uncle along with a baby cousin. A major highlight of the new film is that it was written by Grace herself, along with her father — a surgeon by trade — during quarantine. “We were locked up, like everyone,” explains Grace. “We were really bored and so we were trying to think, ‘What’s a script that we could write?’ … We just got to thinking and we were like, ‘What about The Bad Seed? Wouldn’t that be so interesting?’ I thought it’d be really fun if we just went back to that and came up with our own story.” The original Bad Seed movie had a pretty high body count — does the sequel compare? Grace laughs. “Oh gosh, wait, hold on. … Let me count on my hand. I don’t know if it’s up to the first film, but it’s definitely up there.”
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