AFriendOfTheFamily star Mckenna Grace discusses her pride in the show, her concerns about playing a real person & her work with Jan Broberg.
After six harrowing weeks, Peacock's A Friend of the Family is coming to a close in epic fashion. Chronicling the same events as Abducted in Plain Sight before it, the true-crime series tells the story of the Broberg family in the '70s as they become the target of serial child abductor Robert Berchtold, who primarily set his sights on their eldest child, Jan, and attempts to kidnap her multiple times over the years.
Now I remember the last time we spoke for it, you had mentioned that there was a part of you that was a little nervous about tackling the show. Could you speak a little more to that? What about the role and the show really had you initially kind of hesitant to take it on? I was really just open to hearing anything and everything that she wanted to tell me, because I didn't want to ask the wrong questions, but as time went on, I learned that there was no wrong questions with Jan. But I just wanted to know what she felt was important.
Mckenna Grace: Mr. Jake is one of my favorite people I've ever worked with. It was such an interesting experience, because in my scenes with him, I could not come in to see him and have a certain way that I wanted it to go, there was a certain way that I knew set in stone how I wanted to say my lines, because everything that I did depended on what he was given me.
Mckenna Grace: It was a lot of thinking of what would I be thinking or feeling in this moment. Because waking up in that bed after she was convinced that that was the end of the road for her, and she was gone, it's definitely not an immediate, "Oh my God, everything is a lie.
But that was my first experience and time trying to emit that kind of emotion on screen, and since then, I still have had more surprisingly breakdown scenes, and very complicated emotional characters, but that was really a first for me. So, it was a big learning experience, that day in particular, and also figuring out the scene where Jan tells her parents what has happened to her was a massive learning experience in acting for me on this show.
Mckenna Grace: I didn't know until a couple of days before that she was going to be playing the therapist, and I was just so excited. She came in that week, and that was the same week that we were shooting the dance, so she got to see us do the dance, which was amazing. Then, we also got to be in that scene together, where she was her own therapist, and it was really special and nerve wracking to do a scene with her.
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