Sabrina Carpenter has been cast as Ginger Rogers in the upcoming Fred Astaire biopic led by Tom Holland.
Margaret Qualley, who appeared with Carpenter in the “House Tour” video, will play Adele Astaire, Fred’s sister and original dance partner. Director Paul King announced the casting on Friday for the long-in-the-works project.
Astaire and Rogers became a historic Hollywood dance pairing, while the stage work of Fred and Adele Astaire has often received less attention.
“I am thrilled and honored to have been entrusted with telling the story of Fred Astaire and his original dance partner, his big sister Adele, to the big screen,” King said in a statement.
“Fred left a timeless legacy of dance on film, most famously in his collaborations with Ginger Rogers, while Adele’s work has been lost to history; indeed, no footage of her dancing survives. The cinematic challenge of bringing to life these icons of the twentieth century is one that I could not imagine without Tom Holland, Margaret Qualley and Sabrina Carpenter by my side.”
