While she’s primarily known as a television actress, Isabel May has landed film roles, too. She made her screen debut with a small part as “Missing Poster Girl” in 2018’s “Age of Summer” and landed her first leading film role the following year in the horror film “Let’s Scare Julie.” The budding scream queen told Bello that working on the movie “was such an interesting experience,” especially since the entire movie was filmed in “a 90 minute uncut take — no stopping, one shot.”
May enjoyed her role not only because it was her first feature film but because it was such a departure from her role in “Alexa & Katie,” which had just finished filming its second season when “Let’s Scare Julie” began production. The film centers on a group of mean girls “who make a plan to scare the new girl-next-door and begin to disappear one by one,” with May playing Taylor. May thinks the film is more of a thriller than a horror film, though, which is right up her alley. “I’m not so into the ‘blood, guts, gore!’ trope,” she revealed to Bello. “But a good thriller with a tad of horror?”
While she might be a newcomer to feature films, May didn’t have time to get nervous since the movie was made so quickly. Far from being exhausted by the whirlwind, May was excited for the project, especially as it involved a lot of improvisation, which she called “a dream.”