As Mckenna Grace and Ross Burge were writing "The Bad Seed Returns," the young actress was given total control over her character's dialogue. She wanted to make sure that 15-year-old Emma's lines were words that would actually come out of a teenager's mouth. In one scene that her father had originally written, she explained, "We had a whole speech where I was like, 'This is so fire.'" (Needless to say, that "lit" line didn't make it into the final cut.)
Even while on set, Grace wasn't afraid to change any of the lines she and her father had originally written. "I always try to help a little bit, help my dialogue feel more natural if something doesn't feel right and bring that up with the director or whatnot," she told us.
Getting to write her very first film as well as read those same lines on screen as Emma was a dream come true for Grace. "It was really fun to be able to explore her as [a] teenager in this new social environment," she said.
"The Bad Seed Returns" premieres Labor Day (Monday, September 5) at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. CT) on Lifetime.
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