The day before her family is set to be deported back to Jamaica, she makes a last-ditch attempt to change their fate by pleading their case to an immigration lawyer. Yara Shahidi (of "black-ish" and "grown-ish") stars as Natasha, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants but a New Yorker through and through. But the stakes are high and the clock is ticking - on a mandatory deportation from the United States.
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And in the structural sense, "The Sun is Also a Star" is also a sick teen movie - without sickness. The sick teen genre is a well of deep potential with its heightened stakes and ticking clock. Her first, "Everything, Everything," also went on to success as a movie adaptation, starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson in a swoony take on a Bubble Boy story. The film is the feature adaptation of Nicola Yoon's second novel.
She creates a heady, knee-buckling mood that nearly conceals the weaknesses in story and performances.
In "The Sun is Also a Star," Russo-Young swirls together sun-dappled selfies, luscious skin, urban grittiness and hip-hop beats, the aesthetics perfectly matched to emotion. Director Ry Russo-Young excels at rendering those emotions with a singular sense of artfulness. It seems its big, sweeping emotions are somehow the only things that can match the high-stakes, hormone-enhanced teenage feelings. “That was really cool.” He has football to thank for his acting career he was 20 when he left school to pursue a career in front of the cameras.Teenagers need melodrama. He played football at Kansas State University, “in front of 60,000 fans at every home game,” he says. But I think my favorite movie I watched with my dad would be ‘A Knight’s Tale’ with Heath Ledger.” We watched everything: ‘The Matrix,’ ‘Armageddon,’ ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,’ ‘The Notebook,’ the Marvel Universe movies. “I’d go to the movies every week, multiple times a week, with my dad or alone. “Growing up, my best friend was the movie theaters,” he says. Melton grew up in Juneau, Alaska, but moved around frequently due to his father’s job in the military and by the age of 18 had lived in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Kansas, Korea and Germany. “When I told him I was playing Reggie Mantle, he was pretty pumped up and excited,” he says of his father. His father was a big fan of the Archie comics and told Melton that his experience as a high school athlete would make playing the character of football bro Reggie Mantle a natural fit. I’m very passionate about the role and knew that I wanted to play that role.” “I reached out to my reps, I was like ‘guys, get me the script.’ They were like, ‘Charles, they just announced the news today.’ So I bought the book, read it in two days, fast-forward 10 months, got the script, auditioned for it. and MGM and so that same day I bought the book,” Melton says. And I found out that day that she was asking these questions to the fans, that it was being turned into a movie by Warner Bros. “I was on my social media and I woke up to being tagged in Nicola Yoon posted, asking her followers who should play Daniel Bae.
Just as “Riverdale” will wrap its third season, he’ll jump to the big screen and costar alongside Yara Shahidi in the May release of the film adaptation of young adult novel “The Sun Is Also a Star,” based on the number-one New York Times bestseller by Nicola Yoon. Melton has grown up, he says, and he’s ready to be taken seriously. There’s a bit of Melton his team would prefer he not discuss: his relationship with costar Camila Mendes, along with a spout of bad press from earlier this year when tweets from 2012 landed him in hot water.
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The 27-year-old is in demand these days, as his character on “Riverdale” has been bumped up to a series regular for the mammoth show’s third season.
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