Now that Millie Bobby Brown is free of her decade of service to Netflix smash-hit Stranger Things, she’s apparently moving on from one upcoming starring role on the streamer, leading to the film being outright canceled.
As reported by Deadline, Brown has exited her starring role as gymnast Kerri Strug in Olympic sports drama Perfect over creative difference. In response to her departure, Netflix has scrapped the film entirely just ahead of its planned start date this summer. Perfect was to be directed by Gia Coppola, granddaughter of acclaimed Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola.
Perfect would have focused on Strug’s Olympic career, during which she became a cultural icon in the United States, winning a gold medal after landing a difficult vault despite suffering a serious ankle injury earlier in her routine. The moment was captured in a famous photograph that became an iconic representation of what many consider true athletic spirit.
Strug’s reputation as an Olympic hero still looms large in US history. As someone who watched it in real time, it truly became a defining moment of American sports history almost immediately. Wheaties boxes, Saturday Night Live sketches, news recaps, late night talk show monologues – we got more than our fill of the still remembered highlight of the 1996 Olympic Games in my own hometown of Atlanta, especially, where the games took place.
Despite exiting Perfect, Brown has several Netflix movies on the horizon, including the already completed Enola Holmes 3, which brings her back as Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister who is also a detective in her own right. It’ll release sometime this year. She’s also got deals in place for two more films, Just Picture It, and Nineteen Steps.
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