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Radha Blank Pivots From Playwright to Rapper in ‘The 40-Year-Old Version’ Trailer

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Dave McNary Film ReporterRadha Blank overcomes failure as a playwright by reinventing herself as a rapper in Netflix’s first trailer for “The 40-Year-Old Version.”The footage starts with Blank teaching a playwriting class in New York City as one of “30 under 30 Playwrights to Watch.”“Remember, if you put in nothing, it will be nothing,” she tells her students.

In true New Yorker fashion, one of them snarkily asks, “Like your career?”Blank, who won the U.S. dramatic competition directing award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, helmed from her own script about a down-on-her-luck New York playwright who decides to salvage her artistic voice the only way she knows how — by becoming a rapper at age 40. “What about me doing hip-hop?” she asks.

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