Shawn Hatosy Calls Sarah Michelle Gellar's Ursula His Twin, Wife, and Mom in 'Ready or Not 2' [Exclusive]

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Published Feb 25, 2026, 10:00 AM EST

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After becoming obsessed with Ready or Not in 2019, I made a point to follow Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett from film to film. The duo never disappoints. From Ready or Not to 2022’s Scream, then Scream VI, and then their vampire movie Abigail, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett have continued to prove they’re absolute aces when it comes to assembling unforgettable ensembles, swinging big with stunts and set pieces, and pushing the creative boundaries of the genre. After all those years of feeling incredibly grateful to sit in a movie theater and watch another one of their bonkers and blood-soaked adventures unfold on screen, Bettinelli-Olpin, Gillett, and their filmmaking team offered up the ultimate treat — to get to see them do their thing on the set of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.

During Collider’s exclusive Ready or Not 2 set visit in Toronto in May 2025, I got the chance to sit down with Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett, writers Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, and much of the cast to get a behind-the-scenes look at how they’re expanding Mr. Le Bail’s operation.

As we now know, thanks to the end of the first film, Mr. Le Bail is real. The Le Domas family was in the right to be scared. If they did not complete the ritual and sacrifice Samara Weaving’s Grace before sunrise, they’d be killed — in spectacular blood canon fashion. However, that doesn’t mean Grace can walk off into the sunset. In fact, she doesn’t get any time to enjoy having beaten the Le Domas family at all. As Gillett explained:

“This one picks up right on the heels of the first movie and essentially follows Grace in the next 24, 48 hours of her of her life. What you essentially learn is that her survival has triggered a clause in a very deep tome of bylaws, and she finds herself now with an opportunity to win a huge prize, but the cost, of course, is also really, really severe.”

That tome is supervised by the Ready or Not 2 lawyer, played by Elijah Wood. “We have had the props department create a book. Seeing Elijah carry that thing around has been one of the joys of the shoot.” Gillett continued, “It's this massive, like, 15-pound leather-bound book that's filled with a whole bunch of lore and contracts and signatures and all of that.”

In addition to the Le Domas family, many others are bound to the rules of that book. In Ready or Not 2, we meet a number of them, but there’s one especially dangerous duo in play. It’s twins Ursula and Titus Danforth, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shawn Hatosy. Bettinelli-Olpin teased, “They’re more prepared in this one. They make the family, the Le Domases in the first one, feel a little amateurish.” Writer R. Christopher Murphy made a point to stress that Ursula and Titus have been waiting for this day. He warned, “They’ve been training.”

Who Do Shawn Hatosy & Sarah Michelle Gellar Play in ‘Ready or Not 2’?

“I envision him almost like this Frankenstein figure within this family."

During my conversation with Hatosy, he highlighted how, much like the first film, Ready or Not 2 addresses “privileged wealth” and what many of these characters feel they have the right to take from others without a care in the world. “When I was making decisions about who to model him after, it wasn't too hard, you know?” Given Hatosy modeled Titus off “the worst of the worst,” it’ll likely come as no surprise to learn that he’s fully on board with Mr. Le Bail’s required games. “The legacy is there and it's fully imprinted on him, and he's very comfortable in that skin.”

While Titus has great confidence in that respect, there are aspects of his life where he fears he has less control thanks to his father (David Cronenberg) and his sister, Ursula, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar.

“I sort of built this backstory within him that maybe he was capable of love throughout his life, and maybe he found these things that he was able to be human existing in, and people like Ursula, his twin sister, who is not just his twin sister, but is also like, kind of his wife, and his mom, and she wouldn't let him have those things. So, I think his weakness is his inability to be independent.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar Making Ready or Not 2

Given the scene I saw filmed was spoiler heavy, I’ll refrain from sharing specifics, but one thing that feels both safe and necessary to emphasize is that it appears as though Hatosy and Gellar will deliver electric work sharing the screen as twins. Here’s how Hatosy described his collaboration with Gellar:

“In the script, the dynamic is playful, and there is that sibling banter that is sometimes playful and sometimes a little bit more antagonistic. And we have found, just being together, there are moments that we kind of have the same brain from time to time, which has been a joy. She brings so much professionalism, so much experience, and her talent is evident. I admire her so much. She's an icon, and there is that swagger that she has naturally just being Sarah Michelle Gellar that serves Ursula really well, and so she brings that in. And just because the Danforth family has that sort of regalness, it's very easy to fall into the character and find that I'm not really acting being next to her.”

While Hatosy and Gellar do play into the extremes of their regal lineage, Hatosy insisted it was also important to find the human elements in Titus. He admitted, “I know they're hard to find, but if you dig deep enough, you can find them.” He continued, “I envision him almost like this Frankenstein figure within this family. He's sort of been modeled to be something.” As certain limiting factors fade away, Hatosy warns, “There are no things that can chain him down anymore. He’s unleashed.”

Titus and Ursula Mirror Grace and Faith

"It's about a relationship that's broken, and then by the end, you hope they come together."

As one might expect, unleashing Titus and Ursula paves the way to more devilishly sadistic game play, but it also adds an interesting narrative wrinkle that winds up bolstering Grace’s evolution in the movie. This time around, Grace isn’t fighting for her life solo. She winds up with her estranged sister Faith (Kathryn Newton) by her side. As Titus and Ursula’s sibling dynamic transforms throughout the film, so does Grace and Faith’s. Writer Guy Busick explained:

“It's really about, where do Grace and Faith start, where do Titus and Ursula start, and then how are their arcs the same and how are they different, and where do they intersect? But it was really interesting to have a very tight pair of siblings in the Danforths and then another pair of siblings who really just can't stand each other and haven't spoken for a long time, but there's a deep love there.”

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As Bettinelli-Olpin recalled, “Getting her sister in this movie, for us, was sort of the core thematic thing that made us really excited.” Given the first Ready or Not is largely about Grace wanting a family, the reveal that she's had a sister all along turns everything on its head. “The idea that she has a sister, it just enriches that story because you realize, ‘Oh, Grace had a secret. Grace is not perfect. Grace has a past.’”

Gillett further teased:

“The first movie was always sort of this tragic romance, right? It's about a love that falls apart, and we started thinking about this one as a romance that is sort of the inverse. It's about a relationship that's broken, and then by the end, you hope they come together. Once we started thinking about it as, the end of the first movie is really the midpoint of Grace's journey, and this idea of, what family is to her, it made so much sense, and everything came alive.”

Eager to hear even more about Ready or Not 2: Here I Come from Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin? You can catch my full on-set conversation with the directing duo below: