BRIANNA HILDEBRAND

Deadpool’s Negasonic Teenage Warhead embraces the horror of TV’s The Exorcist

MINOR PROBLEMS

“I play a foster kid named Verity. She is on the verge of turning 18, which means she is about to be kicked out of the system. And John Cho plays Andrew, who is the foster father of four foster kids.”

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE

“When I was growing up I was super into scary movies. I loved horror and slasher films, and my friends and I would sit around and have movie nights. I think my best friend showed me the original Exorcist film when I was in junior high school! [Laughs]”

ENDURANCE TEST

“I’ve always loved being scared, and the challenge. I like to see if movies can scare me. That is one of my favourite things.”

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

“Just recently I finished filming a horror comedy movie called Tragedy Girls [co-starring X-Men: Apocalypse’s Alexandra Shipp]. It was so much fun for me to film. I really enjoyed being on that side of it, with all the prosthetics and blood. It was just such a fun time for me. So I’m really looking forward to starting [The Exorcist] and seeing how much fun we have.”

WARHEAD WISHLIST

“In Deadpool 2 I guess I would just want to expand on Negasonic’s character a little bit. Everyone knows that she’s moody and she’s goth and she’s hard-edged. But I don’t think anyone really knows where that comes from. I think that would be really interesting to explore. [A boyfriend] would be cool.”

The Exorcists’s second season airs on Fox in the US from 29 September, and on Syfy in the UK from 11 October.