Before Sabrina Carpenter was a singer, she was an actress, best known for her role in the Disney sitcom Girl Meets World. Now, after dominating the pop world with Short N’ Sweet and Man's Best Friend, she's returning to the screen to play Ginger Rogers in the forthcoming Fred Astaire biopic.
The cast has Tom Holland as the legendary dancer and Margaret Qualley, who starred in Carpenter's "House Tour" video, as Adele Astaire. Paul King will be directing, with Amy Pascal and Rachel O’Connor on production.
"I am thrilled and honored to have been entrusted with telling the story of Fred Astaire and his original dance partner — his big sister Adele — to the big screen," King said. "Fred left a timeless legacy of dance on film, most famously in his collaborations with Ginger Rogers, while Adele's work has been lost to history; indeed, no footage of her dancing survives. The cinematic challenge of bringing to life these icons of the 20th century is one that I could not imagine without Tom Holland, Margaret Qualley and Sabrina Carpenter by my side."
