The Conjuring universe is set to see its latest installment hit theaters later this year, and we are eagerly awaiting details on the highly-anticipated sequel. The Nun 2, which began filming last fall, will once again follow Taissa Farmiga as Sister Irene as she comes face to face with the titular demon masquerading as a nun, Valak. Further plot details are currently being kept under wraps, but recently Collider’s own Perri Nemiroff was able to get an exciting update on the film. During a conversation with Storm Reid ahead of her new thriller Missing, Nemiroff asked the actress about her first entry into the wildly successful horror franchise.
Though Reid says she’s “not a big horror film person,” the actress is set to appear in a stacked slate of horror or horror-adjacent projects this year. Before The Nun 2 arrives in September, audiences will see Reid as Riley—a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world decimated by a deadly virus—opposite Bella Ramsey in the series adaptation of the beloved video game The Last of Us. Reid is also set to lead the thriller Missing, which hits theaters later this month and is a spiritual sequel to 2018’s Searching.
During her conversation with Nemiroff, Reid revealed that she was “really apprehensive reading the script.” Before taking the part in the horror movie Reid had told herself, “If this is not how I move throughout the world, if this character doesn’t align with who I am as a person, I’m not doing it!” Luckily for us though, the character took Reid by surprise. She went on to explain:
