'A Quiet Place 2' star Millicent Simmonds wants to play a villain in her next film: 'I think it'd be really fun'

• Millicent Simmonds revealed in a new interview with Insider that she wants to play a villain next.
• "I'm always on the good side, but I would love to divert from that norm," the actress said.
• "I think it would be really fun," Simmonds, who recently starred in "A Quiet Place 2," added.

"A Quiet Place Part II" star Millicent Simmonds revealed in a recent interview that she wants to play a villain in her next film.

"I'm sure audiences might not expect that for me, just because the roles that I've typically played are more innocent," Simmonds told Insider via an American Sign Language interpreter.

"I'm always on the good side, but I would love to divert from that norm and play a villain," she continued. "I think it would be really fun."

Simmonds, who had her first breakout role in Todd Haynes' 2017 movie "Wonderstruck," recently reprised her role as Reagan in the second "Quiet Place" movie, which was released theatrically in May following a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the sequel to the 2018 film, Reagan teams up with new character Emmett (Cillian Murphy) to find survivors of the alien attack that decimated their small town and the rest of the world before the events of the first film.

With Reagan's father Lee (John Krasinski, who also directed both films) killed by a creature at the end of the first movie, it's up to Reagan, Emmett, and the other surviving members of the Abbott family - Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Marcus (Noah Jupe) - to make a new life for themselves.

Simmonds - who's next set to star in the TV show "True Biz," a coming-of-age story about a Deaf teenager based on Sara Nović's upcoming book of the same name - also opened up about her experience working so closely with Krasinski and Blunt on the set of the second film.

"John and Emily are incredibly sweet," the actress told Insider. "John is really great about asking important questions, you know, like 'What is it like to be deaf?' or 'What would this really feel like for you?' to help him come up with what would make sense in a scene."

And Simmonds praised Blunt's approach to acting, telling Insider that she learned so much from the "Jungle Cruise" star.

"The scenes where Emily had maybe a really emotional scene, or she was the primary character in the scene... I always kind of observed how she prepared," Simmonds said. "She really had to take time to get into character, really feel her emotions."

"And it was really interesting to see how she kind of workshopped... and she would nail it every time," the "Andi Mack" actress said. "It was incredible to watch her do that."

"A Quiet Place Part II" is currently streaming on Paramount+ and available to purchase on Blu-Ray. You can watch the trailer below.