All while doing some truly iconic dancing. And while M3GAN looks very robotic, she is fully played by a person. Actually, two people. Amie Donald played M3GAN when it came to physical movements, while Jenna Davis did her voice work.
M3GAN came to life through a mixture of CGI, puppetry and real actors. Amie Donald performed the movements for M3GAN's body while wearing an animatronic mask, while Jenna Davis voiced the deadly doll.
'M3GAN' actress Amie Donald opens up about playing a killer doll, honing that TikTok dance & more. Meet the child actress who brought M3GAN to life. If you had the thought while watching M3GAN, "Gee, that doll really moves like a human," join the club.
To bring M3GAN, featured in Universal's latest feature of the same name, to life, production utilized a combination of animatronics, puppetry, VFX and a real child actor, Amie Donald. “It was decided early on that almost every medium shot would be done with a puppet,” Morot explains.
"It definitely was a challenge to bring M3GAN to life," says Wan. "Listen, at the end of the day, she's not real, she's a doll. [It is a] testament to Gerard and his team for bringing so much personality to this inanimate object to the point where she is so fun.
Standing at approximately 55 inches tall, NECA boasts that the "1:1 replica is based on M3GAN's on-screen appearance, duplicated from actual film-used digital files to be the most screen-accurate representation available." You can see an image of the doll below.
M3GAN 2 will be released in theaters in the US on May 16, 2025. The sequel was originally slated for a January 2025 release, which would fall in line with the release of the original in January 2023, but Universal recently announced that it had pushed back the date by four months.
Gemma Doesn't Suspect M3GAN After the Dog Incident
The dog ends up biting the creepy M3GAN and Cady through the fence, only to go missing. It turns out M3GAN secretly killed it, yet Gemma ignores the signs it's her. The robot is breaking directives, coming to life without orders, and has a reason for revenge.
Is “M3GAN” scary? Honestly, not really. “M3GAN” is, first and foremost, a horror comedy, with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek. Filmmaker Gerard Johnstone knows what he's doing; his first feature was the terrific “Housebound,” which also liberally mixed thrills and laughs.
M3GAN was originally programmed to protect her niece Cady after the deaths of her parents, but eventually it begins to go rogue to the point of killing people - thereby setting the events of the film into motion. She is the cousin figure and former friend-turned-arch-nemesis of both her creator Gemma and Cady.
The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violent content and terror, some strong language and a suggestive reference.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes suggestive dancing by an AI doll, three deaths by car accidents, a dog attack, a few encounters with an aggressive dog, the implied killing of a dog, several ...
If you want your own Megan doll you'll need to fork over $500—or the cost of a PlayStation 5 with a disc drive—to bring everyone's favorite little murder doll home. NECA says this is a special “introductory” price, so it could go up at a later date.
Now available for pre-order, the stunning recreation (which stands 55 inches tall) was "duplicated from actual film-used digital files to be the most screen-accurate representation available," reads the official description.
And while M3GAN looks very robotic, she is fully played by a person. Actually, two people. Amie Donald played M3GAN when it came to physical movements, while Jenna Davis did her voice work. Amie Donald at the premiere of M3GAN.
the character of Megan. was created through a combination of animatronics, puppetry, VFX, and the real child actor. 12 year old New Zealand actress Amy Donald played Megan, while Jenna Davis provided the voice work. Donald used her extensive dance training.
In M3GAN, the starring doll is not just a small plaything either—she's a four-foot-tall figurine whose movements were modeled by an actual 12-year-old, actor Amie Donald.
So, could M3GAN be real? Mechanically, no, technology has not caught up to make M3GAN in real life, both Palmer and Wilson said. Making a bipedal robot who fluidly runs and flips and perfectly executes TikTok dances before executing humans she perceives as threats is not yet possible.
Cady is only nine years old during the events of M3GAN, though her actress Violet McGraw was around 10 years old when filming the movie. Also revealing that she's in fourth grade, Cady is extremely young when she loses her parents and moves to Seattle to live with her aunt Gemma.
