From director Rachel Lee Goldenberg (Valley Girl), the HBO Max original dramedy Unpregnant follows 17-year-old Veronica (Haley Lu Richardson) who enlists her ex-best friend Bailey (Barbie Ferreira) for a 1000-mile wild road trip over three days in order to get an abortion. It’s a decision that she never imagined she’d have to make, but a positive pregnancy test has led to the unexpected choice, and she’s going to need genuine support to get through it. As part of the film’s virtual press day, Collider got the opportunity to chat 1-on-1 …
The star of HBO's latest movie spoke with CinemaBlend and reflected on her film work so far.
Haley Lu Richardson and director Rachel Lee Goldenberg told CinemaBlend how it came together.
I just finished watching the first season of HBO's Euphoria last week, and was greatly impressed by the entire young cast, including Barbie Ferreira, who plays cam girl Kat Hernandez. Well I'm not the only who was impressed, as Ferreira has just landed a lead role alongside Haley Lu Richardson in the HBO Max movie UNpregnant. Rachel Lee Goldenberg (The Mindy Project) is directing from a script by Jenni Hendricks and Ted Caplan, who adapted their own YA book of the same name. The coming-of-age story follows a Missouri teen (Richardson) who embarks on a 900-…
Directed by Michael Engler and written by Julian Fellowes (both of Downtown Abbey fame), the early 1920s period drama The Chaperone tells the story of free-spirited Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson), a teenager from Wichita, Kansas who got the opportunity to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, before she ultimately went on to become a silver screen sensation. But because of her age, her mother insisted that she be accompanied by a chaperone, which brought local society matron Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern) into her life and established a bond over that summer that would …