Brandy
volition return to the horror genre for her role in the upcoming A24 movie
The Front Room
. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the film teams up filmmaking siblings Max Eggers (The Lighthouse) and Sam Eggers (Olympia) to co-direct, mark the joint directorial debut for the brothers. Max Eggers co-wrote
The Lighthouse
with blood brother Robert Eggers, who directed the film. Sam Eggers co-wrote the documentary
Olympia, which follows Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis, with Harry Mavromichalis.

The Front Room
is an adaptation of a short story of the same name by Susan Hill. It follows a “young, newly significant couple forced to take in an ailing stepmother who has long been estranged from the family.”

Along with Brandy, the ensemble cast of
The Front Room
also includes Kathryn Hunter (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Andrew Burnap (WeCrashed), and Neal Huff (Spotlight). Lucan Toh, Babak Anvari, Bryan Sonderman, Julia Oh, and David Hinojosa are producing.

With more 40 one thousand thousand records sold worldwide, Brandy is best known for her accomplishments in music, though she has made some interim appearances on the big and small screens. She starred in the hit sitcom
Moesha
before going on to lead a Goggle box motion picture version of
Cinderella. Brandy went on to star in the BET sitcom
Zoe Always After
and has been more recently appearing in the drama series
Queens. In years past, the Grammy winner has too appeared in movies like
Osmosis Jones,
Temptation: Confessions of a Spousal relationship Counselor, and
The Perfect Match. It was reported in March that she will too soon star in the Netflix movie
Best. Christmas. Ever.

Brandy Returns to Horror for The Forepart Room

Brandy is as well known to horror fans for her function in the 1998 slasher picture sequel
I Still Know What You lot Did Last Summer. In that movie, Brandy’s grapheme manages to brand it to the end of the pic alive, though she didn’t appear in the follow-upwardly moving-picture show,
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. In a 2018 interview, author Trey Callaway praised Brandy’s acting and explained why she was perfect for her role in the film.

“Brandy is not only a talented performer, but a lovely human being being,” Callaway told Bloody Flicks. “And I thought she injected some bully energy to the film. Because Julie was and then haunted by the events of the first film— y’all really needed someone like her character of Karla Wilson to keep things as low-cal equally possible for as long as possible— and so function every bit Julie’s stalwart friend and defender to the end.”

Perhaps 1 reason why Brandy hasn’t rushed back to the genre is because she found herself frightened on the set of
I However Know What Yous Did Concluding Summer. Her co-star Muse Watkins, who played the pic’s killer, told Screen Rant in 2020 that Brandy was and so terrified of him that he could visibly meet her trying to get away the first time he approached her.

“I do remember Brandy, when I got on set of the get-go mean solar day of the [sequel], Jennifer Dear Hewitt ran up to me and said, ‘Brandy is like, falling apart, shaking, because she knows she’s gonna have to meet you lot,”’ Watkins explained. “And I said, ‘Where is she, Dear?’ She said, ‘She’s over in the deli.’ Then I walked over to the cafeteria and Love came with me, and lord have mercy, [Brandy] was sitting at the table with eight other girls, in a booth, so there was no way she could go out. And as I walked in the door, she immediately saw who I was, and she got to screaming and trying to go across the other people.”

The Forepart Room
does non notwithstanding accept a premiere engagement.