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Nov 3rd 2026	Mckenna Grace Is a Bigger ‘Hunger Games’ Fan Than You
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Mckenna Grace is operating on two hours of sleep when she opens her Zoom window. Fresh off a night shoot, she is losing her voice and has the beginnings of a black eye from taking an accidental knee to the face. She uses the camera as a mirror to check for damage, joking, “I’m so thankful that this is what I get to do and have my butt kicked on.”

She goes on to enthusiastically detail how her days on set have been filled with snake wranglers, poison ivy, and feral kittens found in the woods. It’s all very Hunger Games–coded and very fitting, of course, considering Mckenna stars in the upcoming Sunrise on the Reaping as Maysilee Donner, a snarky tribute from the fictional world of Panem’s District 12 (Mckenna also plays Maysilee’s twin sister, Merrilee, in the movie).

It’s an adventure and not one without risk, but she is very much here for it, having spent most of her life throwing herself—literally—into the universes she loves. From Scream to Ghostbusters to The Hunger Games, Mckenna has been working on her favorite franchises since she was 5 years old (“I grew up on sets, out of a suitcase,” she shares). Her IMDb page is already longer than a CVS receipt, with eight credits in 2025 alone, several in 2026, and the soon-to-premiere Netflix series Scooby-Doo: Origins, in which she plays Daphne. (If you’re curious about just how big a fan of that project Mckenna is, she named her dog, who she’s posing with on her Cosmopolitan cover, Scooby Doo and her cat Scrappy Mew.)

Your career so far has covered almost every genre and medium. How would you describe a Mckenna Grace role?

The one thing it would require is Mckenna Grace. No, but I’m just out here clawing my way through, trying to get jobs and do things I’m proud of. It’s scary because unlike in the ’90s or early 2000s—where your favorite actors did the same thing in a bunch of movies—now with social media, people get really sick of seeing people really fast. It’s like, “This is the hot new commodity, the new face we’ve been wanting.” Three weeks later, everybody is hating on them.

Do you worry that will happen to you?

The internet is a big part of the industry but very fickle. There was a time where people wouldn’t give you an interview because you had less than 3 million followers.1 Yet it’s a catch-22 because if you’re too present…but, hey, I’m just thankful to be here. And lately, I’ve been blessed to be able to do these franchises that I’m a huge fan of. I am the biggest Hunger Games fan.

Read the full interview with Cosmopolitan

Oct 26th 2026	The Today Show
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The Young and The Restless’ Mckenna Grace (Faith Newman) made an appearance on The Today Show this morning with her fellow cast mates talking about how they landed their roles in the highly anticipated prequel movie, “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.”

Sep 25th 2026	Bones and All
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The Young and the Restless’ Mckenna Grace (ex-Faith Newman) has released a music video for her new single Bones and All. Per her Instagram, Mckenna shares the inspiration for the song, stating:

I wanted to write a song that felt totally head over heels obsessed. For yearning! For feeling so deeply you can only pray that someone feels the same way you do, even though you know it’s absolutely impossible. For when you’re totally obsessed with someone whether you’re with them or not. Although to me, the metaphor of Bones and All meant loving someone entirely to their core…bones and all. To see every piece of who someone is and to show even the parts of yourself you think are awful and to still have love. That’s a scary vulnerability, but beautiful to experience. Just to know someone and to be known. Basically what I’m saying is I watched Bones and All and some more gothic romance movies and got super emotional so I wanted to write a song for intense yearning

Sep 15th 2026	The Last Kiss
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The Young and the Restless’ Mckenna Grace (ex-Faith Newman) stars in the film The Last Kiss, releasing exclusively on digital platforms today.