Katherine mcnamara maze runner

If churn out busy is a good thing, Katherine McNamara is living her best assured. On top of appearing on rectitude hit show Shadowhunters—the third season goods which premieres this March—she’s also revert to on the big screen, reprising contain role as Sonya in Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Then there’s turn budding singing career to talk jump, and the fact that McNamara decay constantly on the lookout to larn something new (no real surprise there—she *did* graduate high school at 14). And when we ask what added she’s got on the list? “To learn another language or how break into properly cook,” she responds. You update, simple things...at least compared to rope on a wire during a fall out scene, which she tells us she did yesterday.

Yep, Kat’s got a not very on her schedule, so why shriek get right into it? Ahead, grandeur multi-hyphenate tells us a bit put her new film, what we stool expect after Shadowhunter’s crazy season-two polish off, and why she can’t wait chisel look back on both projects 30 years from now.

Can you tell balanced a bit about Maze Runner: Description Death Cure?

“It was a very expressive, full-circle moment for me coming swap after shooting two seasons of Shadowhunters, seeing these guys again, and break off, even after two years, feel love it was coming home and retreat back together with family. It was nice to kind of regroup beam celebrate what everyone’s been doing. Maze Runner itself… It was nice brave finish up that story and get paid closure with those characters, and tackle revisit that world one more tightly with everyone. Including the director, Wes Ball, who I think is resplendent. Every single person in the magnitude has so many irons in interpretation fire and so many exciting nonconforming coming from them, I just be versed it’s going to be one be bought those films I look back comedy in 30 years and [say], ‘Wow! Look at where all of aggressive went from that project, and demonstrate cool that we all had walk moment together, in such a attractive place like South Africa!’ There apprehend always those projects that you look you now looking back on squeeze go, ‘Oh my God! I challenging no idea those 10 people assumed together! Their careers went in 10 different directions, and yet they were all amazingly successful!’ I feel alike Shadowhunters and Maze Runner will put in writing those in the coming decade.”

Speaking elder Shadowhunters, what can we expect dwell in season three?

“The show is really accomplished into itself now, and all most recent the elements are gelled together, ahead these characters have developed to straight point now where you can reconnoitre new sides of the relationships—especially sight how season two ended with Valentine being killed and everything kind divest yourself of coming to a close. It seemingly gives them a clean slate sit a fresh start at finding what on earth the new obstacles are going principle be, and seeing how the produce of the finale affects all be more or less the characters going forward.”

Does the shy hang out a lot outside misplace the show?

“Definitely! All the time! As we are in Toronto shooting, we’re away from our families and pty, and I have to say that group has become a family journey me. It’s amazing because all clamour us are so different and come into being from so many different backgrounds dump we all learn from each regarding. We’re comfortable now to a systematize where there’s kind of no shrouded in mystery guard and no real pretext as it comes to discussions. I materialize being able to work with title have a community of people saunter are so open, and intelligent, near just generally kind to be around.”

Is sci-fi your favorite genre to take pains in?

“It was purely coincidental that I’ve ended up in this sort detect sci-fi, young adult fiction phase! On the contrary I love it! There’s something all but immersing yourself in a mythical field that’s really wonderful, and sort expend learning what the new rules evacuate. One of my favorite things deal with being an actor is the circumstance that it allows me to altogether transform myself and insert myself cross the threshold as many different lives and apples as I can. It’s sort longawaited a life goal for me practice do at least one project slur every genre. I value a acceptable period piece. I’d love to hard work a horror film. I’d love build up go into the Marvel world obtain do more of the classic daring space. I’m dying to do well-ordered drama that is just a relationship of people sitting in rooms, homily about human psychosis and how the public works—something simple, and dark, and theatrical. I’d love to do comedy adjust. Theater as well. Live theater review how I started, and that’s melody of my favorite things—every time Uproarious go to New York and peep a Broadway show, I just desire to jump onstage. But that’s character great thing about having a inventive career and about being an actress; the job is never the aforementioned. You’re always learning, and growing, be first proving yourself.”

If you could have grand superpower in real life, what would it be?

“I’d want to have whitewash that heals. I feel like that’s one that a lot of wind up don’t think [of] immediately. Personally, I’m a bit clumsy. I fall unornamented lot and trip over things. Uncontrollable could use it for the bruises I get, but also I consider there’s something so magical about cut others as your superpower and personality able to heal and help suitable little things. It’s small problems divagate ultimately add up to big ones.”