Tom Hanks has more than enough charismatic giddy-up in his first-ever Western, “News of the World,” as a Civil War veteran and widower Jefferson Kyle Kidd in 1870 Texas who makes a living by going from town to town and reading aloud stories from newspapers. But his 12-year-old co-star, Helena Zengel, is also earning critical praise as a 10-year-old German girl, Johanna Leonberger, who prefers to be called Cicada. She was taken from her family by the Kiowa tribe four years earlier and was raised as one of their own. The upstanding Kidd volunteers to deliver the girl to her German relatives near San Antonio. Along the way, these two broken loners slowly but surely create a bond together as they share a harrowing journey.
If she gets nominated as a supporting actress, she would join an elite club of 20 acting contenders aged 18 and younger, who competed for Tinseltown’s highest honor.
If she gets nominated as a supporting actress, she would join an elite club of 20 acting contenders aged 18 and younger, who competed for Tinseltown’s highest honor.
- 1/11/2021
- by Susan Wloszczyna, Chris Beachum and Misty Holland
- Gold Derby
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