One minute after surviving her own death in the first installment, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers that the wedding game is not yet over in ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ (‘Wedding Night 2’), another nightmare in which she must fight side by side with her sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) to escape a new family manhunt.
“When the directors insisted on the idea of including a sister, I was relieved because I think if Grace were alone again, she would give up,” Weaving indicates in an interview with EFE.
After facing a lethal game of hide-and-seek against her husband’s rich and eccentric relatives, who were trying to kill her, Grace, still coming to terms with what she experienced, returns to the big screen this Wednesday as a lethal survivor.
However, in this new departure, destiny awaits him with an unexpected appearance: Faith, his younger sister, from whom he has distanced himself but whom he must protect in order to outwit, once again, the satanic ancestral rite that demands their heads before the first ray of sunlight sentences their destiny.
Grace “is in survival mode, but the difference is that (in this new film) she learns about her sister and her story, and that maybe in the first one, she’s not as perfect as she was imagining, which I like to see,” explains the protagonist.
Ready or Not 2 opens in theaters: New characters, same cold-bloodedness
The ecosystem of this new nightmare introduces fresh faces that inject a new dose of sadism and mystery to the board: a network of highborn families compete to find Grace and Faith.
Leading this new offensive are the Danfords, a lineage led by brothers Titus (Shawn Hatosy) and Urusula (Sarah Michelle Gellar), and one of the founding families who signed the agreement with Mr. Le Bail.
To ensure that the hunt does not lose its essence, the figure of Mr. Le Bail’s representative, played by Elijah Wood, emerges, a guardian of tradition in charge of enforcing the rules, laws and statutes written in this game of shadows.
“He understands what the writings, the laws and the bylaws say, so I don’t think he gets to decide what happens,” Wood tells EFE.
According to the actor, what was established in the first film was “a family dynamic with a pact with the devil that we had never seen before” on screen; therefore, in this long-awaited sequel, the stakes are raised to a much more ambitious scenario.
Survival is no longer a game of hide-and-seek, but a profound transformation: “It has to be more, there has to be more at stake and the world has to be bigger. So the challenge she faces has to be different, so I think you see an evolution in Samara’s character,” adds Wood.
Between fear and absurdity
Part of the defining essence of this sequel lies in the coexistence of gore and laughter. “This girl (Grace) running around in a dress, not dying, it’s crazy. And then this (second film) is the same, but now there are two of them. Come on, it’s a silly, fun fantasy,” Kathryn Newton admits to EFE.
This grace is promoted by the lack of respite given to the protagonist.
“To set it right after the first film was to pose the question: you take a character that you’ve pushed to the limit and then don’t give them a chance to recover, rest or process the events of the first film,” the film’s co-director Tyler Gillett tells EFE.
That is why the biggest challenge for the cast was the fact that they had to maintain their composure in the most tense situations.
“Sometimes we had to remind ourselves of what was at stake, because as actors we were having so much fun that we had to remember that our characters, at the time, maybe weren’t having such a good time,” Gellar tells EFE.
Violence and humor “are always in dialogue. It’s not that violence has to be funny, it’s that they complement and reinforce each other. And I think for us it’s always about finding that balance,” co-director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin told EFE.
Here you can see the trailer of ‘Ready or Not 2’.
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