Constance E. Squires's "Low April Sun," the movie

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It's fun to think about casting Low April Sun, and harder than I'd have imagined. I've got three main characters who turn up in two timelines, twenty years apart, so it's them I thought of casting. Edie Ash is a waitress applying for graduate schools and battling a drinking problem in the 1995 timeline of the story, when her half-sister disappears on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing, and she's a sober oil executive with a guilty conscience about fracking, a little boy she loves, and a gambling-addict husband in the 2015 part of the book--which is the present of the story. Given the time jump, I could either cast young actors and age them up a little for the twenty-year jump or cast older actors for the 2015 timeline. Since money's no object here, I'll do the latter. So, for 1995 Edie, I think her young self could be played by Margaret Qualley, who was the best thing about the Coen Brothers' Drive-Away Dolls, and Rebecca Ferguson would be perfect for Edie in her 40s. Both actors convey smarts and vulnerability and energy. The question is: can they do Okie accents? One imagines that a Bene Gesserit witch like the one Ferguson plays in Dune could do anything she wanted, even making two syllables out of three-letter words (Dad=Dayed).

Keith Frayne, who is Edie's sister's boyfriend in 1995 and Edie's husband in 2015, is described as looking like...[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: Low April Sun.

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