This story about Kyra Sedgwick first appeared in the Miniseries/Movies issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
It took Kyra Sedgwick nearly a decade to get “Story of a Girl” made into a movie, because people just didn’t get it. An intimate portrait of a family woefully unequipped to deal with their teenage daughter’s fitful transition into womanhood, Sara Zarr’s 2007 young-adult novel lacked the kind of flash necessary to attract the attention of Hollywood producers looking for the next “Twilight.”
But to Sedgwick, that’s exactly why the movie needed to be made.
“I thought, ‘Where are the stories about what real teenagers are going through?’ I didn’t feel like I saw it anywhere,” said Sedgwick, who made her directorial debut with the Lifetime film. “I know for me growing up, I always processed my feelings through art. We need to see ourselves reflected back from...
It took Kyra Sedgwick nearly a decade to get “Story of a Girl” made into a movie, because people just didn’t get it. An intimate portrait of a family woefully unequipped to deal with their teenage daughter’s fitful transition into womanhood, Sara Zarr’s 2007 young-adult novel lacked the kind of flash necessary to attract the attention of Hollywood producers looking for the next “Twilight.”
But to Sedgwick, that’s exactly why the movie needed to be made.
“I thought, ‘Where are the stories about what real teenagers are going through?’ I didn’t feel like I saw it anywhere,” said Sedgwick, who made her directorial debut with the Lifetime film. “I know for me growing up, I always processed my feelings through art. We need to see ourselves reflected back from...
- 6/15/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
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