Sabrina Carpenter is slipping into Ginger Rogers’ footwear for a brand new biopic. The Man’s Greatest Buddy singer has been tapped (pun very a lot supposed) to play the silver display screen legend in a still-untitled Paul King movie about Fred Astaire, Deadline stories. Tom Holland will star because the Previous Hollywood triple-threat, whereas Margaret Qualley will play the performer’s older sister, Adele, certainly one of Astaire’s earliest dance companions and a star on Broadway and London’s West Finish in her personal proper.
“Fred left a timeless legacy of dance on movie, most famously in his collaborations with Ginger Rogers, whereas Adele’s work has been misplaced to historical past; certainly, no footage of her dancing survives,” King shared in a press release. ”The cinematic problem of bringing to life these icons of the twentieth century is one which I couldn’t think about with out Tom Holland, Margaret Qualley and Sabrina Carpenter by my aspect.”
The casting announcement caps off an already-stacked 12 months for Carpenter, who has carried out on the Grammys, headlined Coachella, and collaborated with Madonna over the previous few months. She additionally gained her first Emmy earlier this month for government producing and performing in The Muppet Present.
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