Bringing Up Beanie
The scene: spring 2017, a Manhattan restaurant, the season’s Tony contenders swanning about. Beanie Feldstein was a few months out of premiering what would become her breakout screen role, in “Lady Bird,” and was on the Tonys circuit for her Broadway debut performance in “Hello, Dolly!” (Yes, 2017 was a good year for Beanie Feldstein.) Just then, coming down the stairs, there was Olivia Wilde. “She was like, ‘Beanie,’” Feldstein recalls. “And I was like, ‘How is Olivia Wilde talking to me?’” A few weeks later — the exact timeline is a bit of a blur to Feldstein, in a rather adorable fangirl kind of way where facts seem irrelevant — she got a call from her agent that Wilde had signed on to direct a floating script for a movie called “Booksmart,” and was interested in meeting. “We met in Times Square before each of us went to our shows, on 44th Street,” Feldstein says. (Wilde was starring in “1984” at the time.) “And then she was like, ‘I want you to play Molly.’ I was like, ‘Molly, that’s one of the two main characters.’” More from the Eye: Christopher Abbott, Ready for Takeoff 2019 Cannes Film Festival: Elle Fanning on Growing Up in Film “Booksmart,”Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
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