Rebecca Morrison's "The Blue Dress," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Blue Dress by Rebecca Morrison.

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I didn’t have any actors in mind when I was writing The Blue Dress, but if it were ever made into a film, I would hope they cast Iranian-American actors. The story is based on my life and follows a 13-year-old Iranian girl who comes to America. She has a deep yearning to belong, a crush on a boy, and is navigating a complicated and heartbreaking relationship with her mother, who pushes her to lose weight. There's an actress in the new reboot of Scrubs, Layla Mohammadi, who’d be wonderful as the mother in my story. The mom is a complex character that we judge harshly at first, but then empathise and maybe even root for at the end.

And this might sound a little crazy, but...[read on]

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My Book, The Movie: The Blue Dress.

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