The Stepfather

Heard plays Kelly Porter, Michael Harding’s girlfriend, in this horror thriller directed by Nelson McCormick. When Michael returns home from military school to find his mother engaged, his suspicions arise as Kelly tries keeping him grounded.  Co-starring Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, and Sela Ward. On making horror films:

I always really have a good time making thrillers and horror films as a way of causing this like lightness about….I mean there’s like a subsequent lightness to making these kinds of films because you can never take yourself too seriously. I mean, when you’re running from the killer one minute and then having coffee with him the next, you kind of have to laugh at it all.