Beanie Feldstein is leaving her Broadway show early, but her replacement is no stranger to the stage.

If you've seen Booksmart or Neighbors 2, you know that actress Beanie Feldstein has no problem stealing the show, and now she gets to shine center stage with Coky Giedroyc's delightful adaptation of Caitlin Moran's novel How to Build a Girl. The coming-of-age story is a terrific lens in how teenagers work to build an identity and how that identity has to be constantly rebuilt and torn down to find some semblance of honesty, which is tough when your desires and your truths easily conflict with each other. Although the role has comic beats, Feldstein …

Let’s put this out there first; Beanie Feldstein is a favorite and I was utterly delighted by her latest feature, How to Build a Girl. The film actually marks her very first solo starring role, telling the story of Johanna Morrigan, a bubbly and determined teenager who scores a gig working for a music magazine. Johanna does have some success with her early articles but soon comes to realize that her star power and cashflow would rise far faster if she wrote snarky reviews, panning one musician after the next. As things start to spin out of control, the …

IFC Films has released the charming, irreverent trailer for How to Build a Girl as well as a brightly-colored posted featuring the film's star, Beanie Feldstein. The movie is adapted from English journalist Caitlin Moran's novel of the same name. The How to Build a Girl trailer is our first real look at the coming-of-age tale set in northern England in the early '90s. Feldstein plays Johanna Morrigan, the oldest daughter in a working class family who aspires to greatness. As the trailer teases, Johanna faces some setbacks as she tries to break into music …

Beanie Feldstein is the rising star that you need to add to you to-watchlist. Here's some fun facts about the Booksmart star.

Filmmaker Richard Linklater, whose ambitious 2014 film Boyhood spanned the course of 12 years and was nominated for six Oscars, is directing a new multi-year movie that will star Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein, multiple sources tell Collider. Linklater's longtime collaborator Ginger Sledge is producing the ambitious project, and sources say that Jason Blum and his Blumhouse banner are also involved. The film is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's acclaimed musical Merrily We Roll Along, which itself was based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The play takes …

Boyhood director Richard Linklater reveals his latest film epic - a 20-year production that includes actors Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt.

FX's anthology series American Crime Story is, hands-down, one of the best shows on television, so I've learned to trust the producers when they settle on a piece of material. The first season chronicled the controversial O.J. Simpson trial, while the second season focused on the thrilling manhunt of Gianni Versace's murderer, Andrew Cunanan. The two seasons were nominated for 41 Emmys in total, ultimately winning 16 statues. And while it's hard to capture lightning in a bottle for a third time, FX has found the perfect story for the show's upcoming season -- …

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