In the 1995 hit film Jumanji, two kids find and play a magical board game, releasing a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game. In 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, a video game turns the tables on four teenagers who discover an old game console and are thrust into the game’s jungle setting…and into the bodies of their avatars. What do both films have in common? You don’t just play Jumanji — Jumanji plays you.
IMTA alum Madison Iseman stars as Bethany in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle alongside a cast that includes Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Phys Darby, Nick Jonas, Alex Wolff, Morgan Turner and Ser’Darius Blain. “Bethany is your classic pretty, phone-obsessed, kind of mean, entitled teenage girl,” Iseman said of her character. “But underneath all that, she’s just an insecure girl trying to figure out who she really is.”