David Cameron Mitchell set the indie horror world on fire in 2015 with It Follows, helping to make a star out of Maika Monroe. The anticipated follow-up, titled They Follow, will bring back Monroe, but it will also star Naomi Ackie, who is joining the cast.
Deadline reports Ackie is in final talks to join Monroe in They Follow. Details on her role remain under wraps, just as we don’t know the plot of the film. The original starred Monroe as a woman who becomes infected by a sexually transmitted supernatural entity that stalks the people closest to her, and can only be passed on through sex with another.
Ackie has done so much in a short stretch of time, and she’s only getting better and busier. Her breakout role was as ex-Stormtrooper Jannah in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but rather than rolling that over into more franchise blockbusters, she’s diversified with roles in films by some of the top directors around: Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby, Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters, and Kasi Lemmons’ Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody. She’ll be seen this October in the DC Studios horror, Clayface.
In short, Ackie’s a fantastic addition to one of the most anticipated horror sequels on the horizon.
