‘A Wrinkle in Time’ is a big leap for its teenage star
LOS ANGELES — Storm Reid tried to play it cool when Ava DuVernay told her she’d gotten the lead role in Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” but it wasn’t long before the tears started flowing.
“I flipped out,” says Reid, now 14 and in the ninth grade.
The Atlanta-native started acting at age 3 after she told her mother that she wanted to be a “stuperstar.” She’s had bit roles in television (“NCIS: Los Angeles,” ”Chicago P.D.”) and film (“12 Years a Slave,” ”Sleight”), but nothing even close to something like “A Wrinkle in Time.” As the heroine Meg Murry, she is in nearly every frame, navigating mean girls at school, the loss of her father and even interdimensional travel.
“It’s such an important story to be told,” says Reid, who had done a book report on the Madeleine L’Engle novel in the 6th grade. “She goes on this beautiful journey and finds herself and becomes more accepting and learns that she is worthy of being loved.”