Millie Bobby Brown has landed herself yet another Netflix movie project, with this latest one marking a new career first for the star, who first found fame in Stranger Things (which is finally coming to an end this year).
Deadline is reporting that the actor is in final negotiations to star as Kerri Strug, the real-life Olympic gymnastics champion, in a film called Perfect.
Filming is pencilled in for next spring, with The Last Showgirl’s Gia Coppola set to direct.
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If Brown lands the project, it will be the first time she’s played a real-life person on screen.
Strug performed in the 1996 Olympics, representing the USA. As part of a team dubbed the ‘Magnificent Seven’ by the media, she managed to clinch a gold medal while performing with an injured ankle.
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She famously landed her final vault before being carried off by her coach. She then had to be lifted up for the medal ceremony after her team refused to accept it without her. At the hospital, she was treated for third-degree lateral sprain and tendon damage.
Deadline states that landing this story, labelled “one of the more memorable moments in Olympic history”, could be Brown’s attempt to compete in awards season, making comparisons to Margot Robbie in I, Tonya.
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Brown has quite a few post-Stranger Things projects in the pipeline, all with Netflix.
One of them is an adaptation of her own novel Nineteen Steps, which is a fictional story based on real-life events that happened to her grandmother in the 1940s.
There’s also her first romantic comedy, Just Picture It, which is set to start filming soon, and the third film in the Enola Holmes series, which wrapped up production earlier this year.
Perfect does not have a release window at the moment.
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