Amazon has found the lead cast for its upcoming series ‘Paper Girls’. Based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s graphic novel, ‘Paper Girls’ on Amazon Prime Video will star Sofia Rosinsky (‘Fast Layne’), Camryn Jones (‘Cherish the Day’), Riley Lai Nelet (‘Altered Carbon’) and Fina Strazza (‘A Christmas Melody’).
The story of Amazon’s ‘Paper Girls’ follows four young newspaper delivery girls and is set in Stony Stream, a fictional suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. On the morning after Halloween in 1988, while they were out delivering papers, these girls get unwittingly caught up in the conflict between two factions of time travelers. As they travel between present, past and future – they encounter future versions of themselves and now must choose to embrace or reject their fate.
As per reports, Rosinsky plays the role of Mac Cole, who comes from a blue-collar Irish-Catholic family. She is the first girl to become a paperboy in Stony Stream. Mac inherited the paper route from her older brother, someone for whom she has undying loyalty and love… which might be the wrong place to put it. Mac’s toughness however is no act, she has a sharp tongue and quicker fists. Like most bullies however, Mac is perhaps masking a deep well of insecurity. Usually a loner by choice, events conspire to cast Mac as the unlikely leader of our Paper Girls on Hell Day 1988.
Jones will be seen as Tiffany Quilkin who is the only child of success-oriented mixed race parents. Tiffany has big plans for her future and no intention of seeing them derailed. While she is at times willing to improve on the truth when in a tight spot, there is no denying that Tiffany is crazy smart. She boasts an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture, a love of gadgets and technology. She has been delivering papers for a little over a year.
Lai Nelet is Erin Tieng. A dutiful daughter, sister, and yes, newly-minted newspaper employee, Erin often feels caught between worlds. On the one hand, she’s a dual-language immigrant with deep Chinese roots, on the other, she’s an All-American kid on the verge of her teenage years who desperately wants the TV-perfect life she often sees depicted in the Western culture all around her.
Strazza plays KJ Brandman. KJ is one of the only Jewish girls in Stony Stream and comes from the wealthiest family in town, two things nobody will let her forget. It is perhaps only when playing field hockey that she feels truly seen – an image that conflicts starkly with her mother’s desires for her. KJ is guarded, sensitive and underneath her veneer, emotionally roiling. She doesn’t need the paper-delivery job, but it makes her feel free.
Paper Girls is scheduled to film this year in Chicago and is produced by Amazon Studios, Legendary TV and Plan B. Stephany Folsom and Christopher C. Rogers will serve as showrunners for the series and also executive produce it alongside Christopher Cantwell.
Further detail about the cast, crew and release date of ‘Paper Girls’ is yet to be announced by Amazon.
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