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Who would I dreamcast in the movie version of Playback? That’s a particularly fascinating and apt question because Playback’s predecessor, Shine Until Tomorrow, began its life as a screenplay. Much changed from iteration to iteration, but once upon a time, I envisioned these characters in a movie… and still do. Disheartened and disappointed – in life and in herself – Mari Caldwell is all the things she vowed she would never be: divorced, a single mother, a photographer shooting houses for sale instead of rock stars. When she makes an unanticipated trip back to 1967, she rediscovers her seventeen-year-old self, as well as the love she left there on a first visit. Mari is thirty-four on the inside, seventeen on the outside, and a mash-up of the two emotionally: a unique challenge for an actor.Visit Carla Malden's website.
Molly Gordon is spectacular at running the emotional gamut on The Bear. She makes each moment feel fresh, unpremeditated. She’s smart and funny and vulnerable all at once – precisely like Mari. She could pull off Mari’s self-protective, verbally convoluted rants while maintaining Mari’s core yearning for connection.
Jimmy Westwood is the singer-songwriter with whom Mari rekindles the first love that sparked during...[read on]
My Book, The Movie: Playback.
--Marshal Zeringue
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