A icon who shot to fame as a child 63 years ago is making her comeback. Hayley Mills first became a household name when she starred in the pioneering days of cinema. First cracking the Hollywood scene in the 1950s, she went on to star in the likes of Pollyanna, Tiger Bay and The Parent Trap, which led her to critical acclaim.
However, after her stint at fame in movies, Hayley left the world of cinema behind her as she admitted she would never want to star in another film. But some 63 years after her biggest role, Mills is now coming back to the industry to star in a new film. M Night Shyamalan's new film, Trap, sees Hayley make a glorious return to the set, taking on the role of Dr Grant, an FBI profiler, trying to track down psychotic serial killer Cooper, known as "The Butcher".
When he takes his daughter Riley to a concert, he unwittingly falls into an FBI-orchestrated trap as they do all in their power to bring him down. Reflecting on her time on set, Hayley said she was ecstatic to get in front of a camera once again: "It was lovely to be on a movie set again," she said. "There’s more space, you can take deeper breaths.
.. And certainly, on a movie of Night’s, you don’t rush.
" Now aged 78, Mills looks completely different to her younger days as she takes on the gritty story of Dr Grant, who - much like Hayley - was brought onto the case despite being retired from the screen. "She’s been lecturing and writing books and things about [killers] and I think her age is .