Rowan Blanchard is opening up about tackling the role of a bully in A Wrinkle In Time, and even revealed that one scene wasn’t planned at all.
“Internally, I was always viewing a character as somebody who really hates herself and who targets this young girl who’s very bright and smart and who she feels threatened by,” the 16-year-old actress told Popsugar. “I think [Veronica] approached it that way. And she just picked her and decided that she was going to ruin her life. I mean, I hate to be like it wasn’t that hard to get into the character of such a bully. But it also wasn’t, because I think bullies are people who have been very hurt themselves or hate themselves.”
Later on in the film, you see Veronica struggling with body image issues and an eating disorder, but it wasn’t actually in the script!
“So that wasn’t in the script . . .” Rowan dished. “I walked in and we had set up a bedroom set for my character, and she was just like essentially, “We have no script. So you can literally just do what you want,” which was crazy. And I’ve never really had that freedom and trust placed on me by a director, and we walked around the room for an hour and improvised the whole thing.”
“It was really a learning experience for myself,” she continued. “I was very scared, and then I relaxed into it and I think it ended up being this super instrumental part in Veronica’s story. That gives her character this whole layer that would not have existed without that scene.”
Demi Lovato has a new song featured on the soundtrack for A Wrinkle in Time and the newly released music video transports fans right into the world of the movie!
Demi recorded “I Believe” with DJ Khaled and you can watch the super cool video now.
Demi and DJ Khaled are touring the country together right now until the end of March so make sure to see their show!
With just a few more days to go until A Wrinkle In Time is in theaters, star Storm Reid is opening up more about the film — including all it’s little challenges along the way.
In a new interview with Collider, the 14-year-old actress who plays Meg Murry, also dished about the fun making it.
“Everything has been fun. Every little stunt, every hard challenge has been fun,” Storm says. “I just feel like this whole experience has been fun. It’s a blessing. I just feel like this is the opportunity of a lifetime, so I’m trying to seize everything and every moment, and soak it all up.”
One of the biggest challenges for her though was having that “lead” title bestowed on her.
“I don’t really look at myself as the lead of this movie because I feel like we’re all a team, but people call me the lead and Meg is the center of the story,” she says. “That was kind of shocking because this is my biggest opportunity.”
Storm continues, “This movie is on my shoulders. I have a lot of pressure because there’s a lot of people that read the book and love the book. I want (author) Madeleine [L’Engle] to be proud, so I was just trying to get everything perfect and embrace Meg and bring a little bit of the character from the book into Meg.”
A Wrinkle In Time opens in theaters on Friday, March 9th.
The upcoming flick, which is out in theaters NEXT FRIDAY, March 9th, will be screened for FREE for underprivileged children at AMC Theaters.
Partnering with Color of Change, an online racial justice organization, AMC will launch the “Give a Child the Universe” initiative, which encourages individual and group benefactors to purchase and donate tickets to A Wrinkle in Time, allowing underprivileged children to see the film at a matinée showing at their local AMC location the day the movie open.
From those donations, Color of Change will put tickets in the hands of children in need through a network of local partners, schools, and community-based organizations.
Storm Reid is a force to be reckoned with in the brand new trailer for A Wrinkle In Time!
The young actress stars in the film as Meg Murry, a young girl who goes an unexpected journey into alternate dimensions with her brother and their friend on a mission to bring home their father.
Last week, six new character posters were released along with a behind the scenes featurette. Check those out in case you missed them!
“Meet the Mrs.’s and the Murrys in these brand new posters from Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time,” the movie wrote on their Twitter account.
A Wrinkle in Time tells follows an ordinary teenager who’s whisked on a cosmic adventure to find her missing scientist father with the help of three celestial beings.
