Kristen Stewart is ready to make her tv debut, because the Oscar nominee will lead the upcoming restricted sequence The Challenger.
Who will Kristen Stewart Play in The Challenger?
As reported by Deadline, Stewart will play Sally Trip. The astronaut and physicist turned the primary American girl to fly in house, doing in order a part of the NASA house shuttle astronaut class of 1978. Trip has had frequent mentions all through American in style tradition and was performed by Ellen Wroe within the second season of the Apple TV+ sci-fi drama For All Mankind. She died in July 2012 on the age of 61.
Maggie Cohn, whose earlier credit embrace The Staircase and Narcos: Mexico, will function showrunner and author. The venture can be govt producers by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Companions, Kyra Sedgwick’s Large Swing Productions, and Kristen Stewart. Amblin’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey are likewise govt producers. Although a platform shouldn’t be but connected to the sequence, Amazon is claimed to be near securing a deal.
The Challenger relies on The New Guys, which is a guide by Meredith E. Bagby. The writer is partnering with Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler of Large Swing Productions. They’re additionally govt producers.
Stewart, identified for her roles in films like Twilight, Underwater, Happiest Season, Private Shopper, and Clouds of Sils Maria, has by no means carried out a tv present earlier than. The actress, who acquired an Academy Award nomination for her main function in Spencer, did have a small cameo function in 2022’s Irma Vep. The HBO Authentic, which was created by Oliver Assayas, a frequent collaborator of Stewart’s, is an enlargement of Assayas’ 1996 movie of the identical identify.
Since her Oscar-nominated efficiency in Spencer, Stewart has starred in Love Lies Bleeding and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future. Her subsequent films embrace Love Me, reverse Steven Yeun, and the street journey comedy Sacramento.