Kyra Sedgwick on Why She Finally Made Her Directing Debut on ‘Story of a Girl’
This story about Kyra Sedgwick first appeared in the Miniseries/Movies issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
It took Kyra Sedgwick nearly a decade to get “Story of a Girl” made into a movie, because people just didn’t get it. An intimate portrait of a family woefully unequipped to deal with their teenage daughter’s fitful transition into womanhood, Sara Zarr’s 2007 young-adult novel lacked the kind of flash necessary to attract the attention of Hollywood producers looking for the next “Twilight.”
But to Sedgwick, that’s exactly why the movie needed to be made.