Abby Ryder Fortson, Star Of Lionsgate’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.’, Signs With WME
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: WME has signed actress Abby Ryder Fortson, the 15-year-old up-and-comer known for leading Lionsgate‘s recent coming-of-age dramedy Are You There God?
It’s Me, Margaret, based on the classic Judy Blume novel published in 1970. Released on April 28th, Are You There God? tells the story of Fortson’s 11-year-old Margaret, watching as she navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence after her parents move her from New York City to the suburbs of New Jersey.
Kelly Fremon Craig wrote and directed the pic, also starring Rachel McAdams, Benny Safdie and Kathy Bates, with Blume, Craig and James L.
Brooks being amongst its producers. Fortson played a younger version of Kathryn Newton’s Cassie Lang in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, also previously starring opposite Betty Gilpin in Uni/DreamWorks’ hit family film A Dog’s Journey, based on the beloved novel by W.
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