In Hollywood, where an actress plays a high school student on the center screen a decade after her classroom, Mia Isaacs and her live performance don’t force me Exceptional. Isaac turned 17 on the first day of filming directed by Hannah Marks. She plays Wally, a teenage daughter who reluctantly takes a road trip with her father (John Cho), who keeps his cancer diagnosis a secret.
Isaac, who lives in Atlanta, had known for a long time that he wanted to be an actor, but his parents were hesitant. Hoping to break the tension, Isaac asked his parents for an agent at age 11, for Christmas. “My dad told me I had to learn multiplication first, up to 12,” recalls Isaac. After earning those tables and getting an agent, Isaacs did commercial work and auditioned for Nickelodeon and Disney Channel’s Required Range, but “never felt very connected to the script,” he says.
When it comes to on-screen teens, there’s the ultra-sanitized version of the kids’ network and then there’s the one. Euphoria end of the spectrum. don’t force me (July 15 on Amazon Prime) occupies a sparsely populated location. Isaac explains his character: “The way he moved as he grew up and became an adult, he was a lot like me. I felt that I saw”
Filming was underway in New Zealand, where Cho was supposed to be for her Netflix series. cowboy bebop. With some effort, the country doubled as the American Southwest. A year after getting his driver’s license, Isaac filmed scenes of driving on roads that were supposed to be closed and staged with cars traveling in the opposite direction of local traffic. Luego was at the pampered barrel stand that Isaac had shown at a fiesta scene that was supposed to take place at a summer fiesta in Texas, but it was filmed in the middle of the night on a working cow farm in New Zealand in the fall.
Just as Wally’s coming of age is seen with multiple screen debuts, Isaac has experienced multiple set debuts. He was on the set of a studio feature film, his first leading role, and from the start he faced reality while making his first big emotional scene. “I was nervous because I wanted to do a good job and I felt like a lot of people were watching,” she recalls. He completed the first shoot, but was not entirely satisfied with the result. Then Cho pulled me aside: “He told me something I think I’ll remember forever: ‘A scene doesn’t define an entire character or an entire movie.’ “
Isaac and Cho enter don’t force me
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He follows don’t force meIsaac traveled to New York to film the next Searchlight satire it’s not good, in which he plays a school survivor. Next up, Isaac has a decidedly adult role leading a Hulu drama series. black cake, an adaptation of the book by Charmaine Wilkerson (2023), whose creative team includes Oprah Winfrey. He will play Covey, a Jamaican swimming star from the 1960s who, faced with an unwanted marriage, seems to disappear into the ocean.
After completing both films, Isaac was in Atlanta with former classmates who were graduating from high school. (Isaac graduated at age 16). Between working on his Jamaican dialect and working on Wilkerson’s source material, he spends time with his friends before they head off to college and flies into his next project: “being a kid and playing. Employees.”
A version of this story first appeared in the July 15 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. Click here to subscribe.
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