The Black Phone 2 Exclusive Interview! (Madeleine McGraw)
The Joe Vulpis Podcast
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Madeleine McGraw is a rising star best known for her unforgettable performance as Gwen in the hit horror film The Black Phone. In this exclusive interview, she discusses her role in The Black Phone 2, sharing behind the scene secrets, easter eggs, Ethan Hawke's acting style, what it was like stepping back into such an emotionally intense world, and the challenges of bringing new layers to her character. Madeleine talks Toy Story 4+5, Secrets of Sulpher Springs, Cars, Bradley Cooper in American Sniper, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | True fans will notice what I'm about to say, but there are really special tributes or |
| 0:06.9 | like parallels in the second movie to the first. |
| 0:10.4 | The only thing you guys put in of the film was the actual phone booth itself. |
| 0:14.4 | The mountains are all real. |
| 0:15.3 | The mountains are real. |
| 0:16.0 | The cabins are act. |
| 0:16.7 | That's an actual summer camp. |
| 0:18.2 | For Sulphur Springs, I would sometimes just like lure my lines on the way to set. Toy Story 4 is different from Black Phone in literally every aspect. Like, in what way? Moments away from the Black Phone to a release date. Correct. What are you feeling? Everything. Nerves, excitement. I'm beyond excited for people to see it. But, of course is that nervous energy. Like whenever I think about it, I have knots in my stomach. You've already had the premiere, right? Correct, yeah. What has the feedback been so far? What are people saying? All good things so far. I mean, all that I've seen. My family and friends send me, like, reviews and stuff. I don't think they would send me negative ones, though, so I haven't seen those. But they've sent me a lot of positive reviews about the movie and my performance, which have all, like, just meant the world. And it's made me so emotional whenever I read them. But I'm so glad that there's been such good reviews and the movie hasn't even come out yet. |
| 1:11.3 | Do you have a favorite moment from these past few weeks? |
| 1:13.6 | Because I feel like your schedule is just everywhere. |
| 1:16.6 | I mean, I feel like it'd have to be the premiere. |
| 1:20.2 | Like that was unreal. |
| 1:21.6 | I literally, for the last like five minutes of the movie when it was playing, I was just like I sat forward and just looked at |
| 1:27.5 | everyone's reactions. Like I was looking at everyone's faces, really taking it all in because I don't know, I feel like that's such a special and important moment. And so I just, I really wanted to soak it all in. Was there a difference between Black Phone 2 premiere versus the Black Phone 1? Oh, yeah. How did you feel? |
| 1:42.7 | Oh, it was crazy. |
| 1:43.9 | Like, it was honestly really trippy being back there. |
| 1:46.6 | Um, it felt like. Like, it was honestly really |
| 1:44.9 | trippy being back there. Um, it felt like a really full circle moment though, which was nice |
| 1:49.7 | because, you know, first one premiered there. We weren't actually going to have the second one |
| 1:54.0 | there originally. We were going to do it in New York, but our director wanted it on like the |
| 1:58.2 | best screen with the best speakers. and so we did it at the chinese |
| 2:02.6 | theater and i'm honestly really glad that we did because it brought back so many emotions and it was |
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