{"id":16414,"date":"2012-08-27T13:22:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16414"},"modified":"2012-08-26T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T18:04:36","slug":"young-star-of-beasts-of-the-southern-wild-quvenzhane-wallis-signs-with-icm-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16414","title":{"rendered":"Young Star Of \u2018Beasts Of The Southern Wild,\u2019 Quvenzhane Wallis, Signs With ICM\u00a0Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The little girl from <em>Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/em> has gone Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>The talent agency ICM Partners has signed <strong>Quvenzhane Wallis<\/strong>, the 8-year-old actress who captivated the Sundance and Cannes Film festivals earlier this year starring as <strong>Hushpuppy<\/strong> in the <strong>Benh Zeitlin<\/strong>-directed drama.<\/p>\n<p>The Louisiana-filmed movie \u2013 which was acquired by Fox Searchlight, won the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or award at Cannes and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance \u2013\u00a0tells the story of 6-year-old <strong>Hushpuppy<\/strong>, her ailing father, <strong>Wink (Dwight Henry)<\/strong>, and a group of resilient people cordoned off from civilization by a large body of water and always fearing the flood that may wash away their lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quvenzhan\u00e9<\/strong> was selected from over 4,000 young ladies to make her film debut in the lead role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little girl from Beasts of the Southern Wild has gone Hollywood. The talent agency ICM Partners has signed Quvenzhane Wallis, the 8-year-old actress who captivated the Sundance and Cannes Film festivals earlier this year starring as Hushpuppy in the Benh Zeitlin-directed drama. The Louisiana-filmed movie \u2013 which was acquired by Fox Searchlight, won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}