Actress Mckenna Grace prioritizes Disney dreams, limits nudity in roles

The 20-year-old actress, currently starring in *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping*, told Cosmopolitan, “At this point, I definitely don’t do nudity or very hypersexual things. I respect anybody who can, but it’s terrifying to me. I don’t know if that’ll ever change.”

While she doesn’t restrict herself to only “wholesome” roles – noting her character’s violent death in *Scream* – Grace emphasized her desire to eventually take on a Disney princess role.

Grace began her acting career at age five with television commercials. She has since appeared in *Crash & Bernstein*, *The Young and the Restless*, *Gifted*, *I, Tonya*, *The Haunting of Hill House*, *Chilling Adventures of Sabrina*, *Ghostbusters: Afterlife*, and *The Handmaid’s Tale*, for which she received a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2021.

She described the complexities of child acting, explaining, “As a kid on set, you’re expected to act like an adult until you’re on camera. Then you’re a kid until everybody is mad at you because you’re acting like a kid.”

Grace will appear as Maysilee Donner in *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping*, alongside Joseph Zada as a younger Haymitch Abernathy. Directed by Francis Lawrence, the film is a prequel set 24 years before the original *Hunger Games* films and focuses on the 50th Hunger Games. The cast includes Elle Fanning, Glenn Close, Ralph Fiennes, Kieran Culkin, and Maya Hawke.

Grace shared that she maintains a journal to track fan expectations for her characters, ensuring details like her character’s signature braid are incorporated. Early reviews of *Sunrise on the Reaping* have been highly positive, with some critics calling it the best film in the franchise.

The film is scheduled for release on November 20.