In adapting ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,’ director Kelly Fremon knew keeping the heart of the original novel was key. “It really came down to, how do I deliver the spirit of the book, the soul of the book?”
was a late bloomer. “I didn’t really need a bra till I was 14,” the filmmaker says. “I didn’t have my period till then, and I was distraught about it…. At the time, my mom was really into New Age visualization. She’d be like, ‘If you want something, you have to imagine that it is so.’ And so I would literally lie in bed at night and be like, ‘My boobs are growing bigger every day.’ I would imagine them just like, popping out of my chest—sprouting, like time-lapse photography.
Exactly. That’s so funny, you read it in sixth grade. So did I. And I remember, right off I knew like, oh, I'm way too young to read this. I was like, “I'm gonna shut the door and read it fast as I can absorb all of it.”Until fairly recently, Judy said she didn’t want her books being adapted. You can kind of see why: they're sort of episodic, there isn't a ton of plot. It's more about feelings.
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