We were joined on the Popternative show by Natalie Grace (1923, Raymar) who stars as Katie Cannon in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, a reimagining of The Mummy franchise that amps up the horror. Natalie stars alongside Jack Reynor (The Perfect Couple, Midsommar), Laia Costa (The Wheel of Time, Victoria), May Calamawy (Ramy, Moon Knight), Shylo Molina (Eternally Yours, The Afterparty), and Verónica Falcón (Ozark, Perry Mason).
Natalie plays the daughter of a journalist (Reynor) who vanishes without a trace in Egypt at age 8. Eight years later, she is found in a 3000-year-old mummy tomb. She mysteriously returns home to her family, but the long-awaited reunion quickly turn into terror as it becomes clear she’s not the same girl who disappeared, and is changing into something far more sinister.
Her role required extensive makeup effects to fully bring the character to life. “I went to LA to do a 10-hour makeup test just for them to approve the makeup. And then from there it just kind of snowballed. There were so many different phases. And then within the movie, there’s three different phases of makeup, too. So, that was a major part of the character,” Natalie explains.
The lengthy makeup process wasn’t the only challenge Natalie endured, as she explains,”It took me I would say about a month just to emotionally and physically recover. Because not only [did I have to] deal with the makeup and the process of that [which was] very exhausting, but also the stunts. I did all my own stunts. So, physically I was just exhausted and I would have dreams every single night about the character. I would speak in my sleep, I would scream in my sleep. I probably woke my parents up so much, but it took so long for it to kind of get out of my system because I was so locked into the character for the almost 80 day shoot that we had. It just became a part of me.”
Watch the full conversation wih Natalie Grace below.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is playing in theaters.
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