Carpenter Cast as Ginger Rogers in Astaire Biopic — SkimNews
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- Sabrina Carpenter has been tapped to play Ginger Rogers in a still-untitled Paul King biopic about Fred Astaire, per Deadline.
- Tom Holland will star as Fred Astaire, while Margaret Qualley is set to play Fred's older sister Adele — a Broadway and West End star and one of his earliest dance partners.
- Director Paul King said in a statement that no footage of Adele dancing survives, calling her work "lost to history" while Fred's legacy endures through his film collaborations.
- King called bringing these 20th-century icons to life a challenge he "could not imagine" without Holland, Qualley and Carpenter by his side.
- The casting caps a breakout run for Carpenter, who this year performed at the Grammys, headlined Coachella, collaborated with Madonna, and won her first Emmy for executive producing and performing in The Muppet Show.
Why it matters: Carpenter's leap from pop stardom — Grammys, Coachella, an Emmy — to playing Ginger Rogers in a prestige biopic marks a notable career pivot. The project also aims to resurrect Adele Astaire's legacy, whose dance work King says has been entirely lost to history, with no surviving footage.
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