The Nun 2 Interview: The Scene That Almost Broke Director Michael Chaves
61The Nun II is the ninth film in The Conjuring Universe. With each new installment, it gets tougher and tougher to keep things fresh and deliver creative scares unlike anything we’ve seen before. But, director Michael Chaves is clearly up for the challenge because The Nun II boasts some stellar scare scenes, one of which almost “broke” the three-time Conjuring-verse director.
The Nun II begins four years after the events of The Nun. It’s 1956 and Taissa Farmiga’s Sister Irene is doing her best to keep the past in the past. However, as we know from the end of the first Nun movie, Valak was never vanquished. Instead, the demon is using Maurice (Jonas Bloquet), aka Frenchie, as a vessel. When a priest is murdered and it becomes evident that evil is spreading, Sister Irene is summoned to investigate. With a young novitiate by her side, Storm Reid’s Sister Debra, Sister Irene follows a trail of horror and death that leads straight to Maurice’s location, an all-girls boarding school.
With The Nun II hitting theaters nationwide on September 8th, I got the chance to catch up with Chaves for an interview about his experience tackling his third Conjuring-verse film after making his feature directorial debut with 2019’s The Curse of La Llorona and then directing the third installment of the main Conjuring series, 2021’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
Check out this The Nun 2 interview to hear all about Chaves' collaboration with a soaring voice in the genre, screenwriter Akela Cooper, how he found the right balance between real Frenchie and Valak, which scare scene was a “beast” to tackle, and loads more!
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