‘Luck’ Director Peggy Holmes Drew Inspiration From Real Foster-Care Stories: “They’re Kind Of The Heroes Of Their Lives” – Contenders L.A.
deadline.comLuck was on director Peggy Holmes‘ side when the film Luck landed in her lap, a project about a young woman in the foster-care system looking for her happy ending.
Holmes spoke about all the layers that went into creating the world in which protagonist Sam Greenfield (Eva Noblezada) exists during a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event, and what attracted her to the animated film that found a home at Apple. RELATED: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage “I was asked to take a look at this project and there were two things that I was really drawn to, and one was the idea that Sam was growing up in the foster-care system.
I thought it could be a great opportunity to create an emotional story about someone with no family finding a forever family,” Holmes said. “And then also, there was a leprechaun.
So I thought, maybe what we could do is sort of create a world, blow this leprechaun out by creating a world where the luck we experience every day as humans is created by a world we never knew existed.
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