Deadline caught up with actress Joey King at the premiere of the David Leitch’s new action-thriller Bullet Train. When asked about working on Netflix’s Uglies on the red carpet, King stated, “It was very exciting for me.
The Uglies books meant a lot to me as a kid.” She continues, “Being able to make that and be the lead of those movies and also have so much fun while doing it–what a dream realized!
I was 11-years-old when I feel in love with the books.” Joey King describes working on ‘Uglies,’ YA bestseller adaption for Netflix, as a “dream realized” because she’s been a fan of the books since 11 pic.twitter.com/8jzdZbqnwf Uglies is based dystopian book trilogy written by Scott Westerfield set in a world in which a compulsory operation at 16 wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty.
Sources say King long has been a fan of the series and brought the series to Netflix –called them, got them to read the script and the book, and then King got Netflix to option it.
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