Up-and-coming actress AnnaSophia Robb (right) has been cast as a younger version of Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 18-year-old Robb will play the titular lead in The Carrie Diaries, a SATC prequel series coming to the CW that imagines Bradshaw’s life as a high-school student in Manhattan.
The show, based on the books of the same name, is being written by Candace Bushnell—whose semi-autobiographical tales inspired the entire franchise.
And like Sex and the City, The Carrie Diaries is told from Bradshaw’s point of view: Episodes explore her relationships with boyfriend Sebastian Kydd, gay BFF Walt and rival queen-bee Donna LaDonna.
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Robb is best known for playing Violet Beauregarde in the 2005 reboot of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In 2005, after scoring a role in Because of Winn-Dixie, Robb told the Christians Unite website that, “God really helped me in this film getting the part.”
We couldn’t help but wonder if Our Lord also helped her score this more adult role.
Do you think The Carrie Diaries will recapture the magic of early SATC episodes, or merely rehash the lameness of the movies? Sound off in the comments!
Photo via Mandy Jouan
divkid
“God really helped me in this film getting the part.”
awww, isn’t he a sweetie, and how entirely admirable of him to take time out of curing children with leukaemia and preventing genocide and mass starvation to do this thing. good on him, i say.
prince of snides aka divkid
oh, and bound to be dreck. inevitable.
Belize
Didn’t Carrie move to Manhattan in 1986; after high school and presumably college?
Sorry. I watched the damn thing.
Larry
there goes the shoe fetish…I’m sure god will want her in sandals
dsp
Was talking to God this morning over coffee, bagel and cream cheese and nope he didn’t! He didn’t even know who this AnnaSophia Robb was! I guess he has more important things to do like help really rich actors and singers win Oscars and Grammys! (I’d like to thank God for this Oscar/Grammy) Go figure.. ….. (rolls eyes in sarcasm)
Oh, ok.
Why couldn’t The WB leave UPN alone? The CW is a nonstop train wreck.
Dorothea from Germany
@Belize: I had the same thought. Carrie moved to NYC after high school.
Dorothea from Germany
Btw, in the interview she also said that she was home schooled. This might explain her God fetish.
Chris
She’d make a better Samantha.