Awkwafina will star in ‘The Last Adventure of Constance Verity’.
The 30-year-old actress has signed up for the lead half within the fantasy-adventure film, primarily based on the novel sequence of the identical identify by A. Lee Martinez.
The novels inform the story of Constance Verity, who has been battling the supernatural since she was a toddler and desires a break from it. While all Constance needs is the possibility to dwell a traditional life, her future is to avoid wasting the world and she or he struggles to flee it.
John Raffo has written the script, whereas Jon Shestack is producing.
Saga Press printed ‘The Last Adventure of Constance Verity’ in 2016 and adopted up with a sequel in 2018. Martinez is presently writing the third e-book within the sequence.
Meanwhile, it was just lately revealed that Awkwafina virtually missed out on her main function in ‘The Farewell’.
Lulu Wang directed the comedy-drama, which relies on her personal life and follows a household who – upon studying their grandmother has solely a short time left to dwell – determine to not inform her and schedule a household gathering earlier than she dies.
The function was given to Awkwafina, however filmmaker Wang revealed that when the producer approached her suggesting the rapper and actress ought to play a ”model of her” within the movie, she wasn’t satisfied the star could be an excellent match.
She defined: ”[When] my producer introduced her identify up I used to be like, ‘Awkwafina, the rapper from Queens? This is who you suppose ought to play, I suppose, a model of me in a drama? Are we making the identical movie right here?’ ”
However, Wang went on to elucidate that the audition tape lastly satisfied her that the ‘Ocean’s 8’ star may give a transferring efficiency.
She added: ”There was a high quality of each mild and darkish, the place she’s in a position to make a joke however you form of really feel like, in a method, she’s doing it to masks one thing deeper.”
