Paul Mescal and Gracie Abrams attend the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards, Feb. 22, 2026 in London, England. (Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Getty Images)Gracie Abrams used to worry that being happy would make it hard for her to write songs. Turns out the opposite was true, as she tells Rolling Stone for her new cover story. And while you’d think Gracie would be used to that, as the daughter of famed director JJ Abrams, that’s not the case. She tells Rolling Stone that any time she spent in the public eye as a child was “very contained.”