TORONTO — We've already had Drake graduate from Degrassi and invade American pop culture from the north. And now here comes Chloe Rose.
"I'll become a rapper next. That's what I'll do," the Canadian actress jokes.
Like the one-named hip-hop artist before her, Rose spent many of her formative on-screen years starring in the teen-TV staple Degrassi: The Next Generation. Her next project, the horror movie Hellions (in theaters and on iTunes today), puts Rose in the lead for the first time in a feature with a mix of Rosemary's Baby and Trick 'r Treat.
Hellions, which is playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, stars Rose as Dora, who on one fateful Halloween learns she's pregnant, is haunted by horrifyingly creepy costumed children with an eerie interest in the bun in her oven, and tries to survive while the baby grows supernaturally quick in her womb.
"I'd never done horror before and I really liked the character in terms of her feistiness mixed with his genuine vulnerability," Rose says. "No bull … but at the same time afraid of things. I could relate to that."
Canadian director Bruce McDonald (Pontypool) helped the actress bridge the gaps of her character's various frightening obstacles while also talking with her about the movie's main metaphor of leaving childhood behind.
"All these little creatures from these books when she was a kid and the dolls and these things attacking her and bringing out her deep rooted fears are bringing them to her attention of being an adult and what that means," says Rose.
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