The film picks up where Smile left off, but this time, our protagonist is Skye Riley (Naomi Scott), a pop sensation about to embark on a big tour when she witnesses a suicide.
“[Naomi] sings all of the songs in the film and she does all of the choreography. She is a force of nature, a quintuple threat,” Finn says. “The most important thing for me, though, was the harrowing, dramatic journey that the character goes on.”
Scott, who is best known for playing Princess Jasmine in Disney’s live-action Aladdin, says she felt like she really understood the character of Skye when she read the script—the trauma of her past, and her fractious relationship with her mother (Rosemarie DeWitt). “It really does feel like a character piece where I get to run the gamut of emotion, and it is rooted in something that requires a grounded performance,” she says. “But then I get to go to all these just flipping unhinged places and really go for it.”
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