High school makes strange bedfellows.
How else does a quiet jock end up turning to another quiet, nerdy girl for help in wooing a popular girl? So goes the premise of the new Netflix comedy The Half of It from writer/director Alice Wu.
The movie reimagines Cyrano De Bergerac in an adolescent setting, substituting a queer woman for the verbose Frenchman with a long nose. The film casts Leah Lewis as Ellie, the shy girl in question; Daniel Diemer as Paul, the sweet but slightly dopey footballer; and Alexxis Lemire as Aster, a beautiful, popular girl with a spirit a bit to independent for a small-town high school.
Queerty managed to grab time with the three actors to discuss their characters, the film, and young love just ahead of the film’s streaming premiere. The Half of It lands on Netflix May 1.
artguy1000
OMG, could someone at Queerty PLEASE proof-read your articles. Like maybe starting by fixing this title “spill on a the”?
tallskin2
Can you just STOP using the word “queer” to describe gays, lesbians and Bisexuals!
Just fukcing stop.
Not only is it offensive but it is utterly meaningless since nowadays it means some straight girl who kissed another girl at a drunken party 6 months ago and now uses “queer” to describe herself in order to give herself some “edge”!