Katie Featherston Video Interview On ‘Paranormal Activity 4,’ What Scares Her

Katie Featherston, the star of the new horror movie Paranormal Activity 4, directed by Oren Peli, appears soft spoken and innocent in real life. But she has been scaring audiences on the silver screen for the better part of the last four years, and this latest installment in the Paranormal Activity franchise is no exception. “Without giving anything away, there’s a scene where I do some running and the end part of that scene was the trickiest to film,” Featherston told Uinterview exclusively. “It was a lot of fun, but there was a lot of sort of breakable things involved and there was some bruised hands afterwards, but well worth it because I think it’s a pretty effective scare for the audience.”

The oldest of three siblings, Featherston was raised in Arlington, Tex., and attended Southern Methodist University. She graduated SMU in 2005 with a BFA in acting and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter. A few years later she landed the lead role of “Katie” in Paranormal Activity. Made for just $15,000, Paranormal Activity went on to gross over $190 million worldwide and catapulted Featherston from a relative unknown to a popular face. The sequels — Paranormal Activity 2, Paranormal Activity 3, and the newly-released Paranormal Activity 4 — have all been incredibly successful at the box office, making this Katie-playing-Katie gig a solid and steady role for the young actress.

As for whether she will reprise her role in the series’ fifth green-lit movie, Featherston noted that she would like to, but has not been told by the studio whether there are plans for her in a future film. “But we’ll kind of have to wait and see what they decide to do with it,” she told Uinterview. “I look forward to finding out.”