Whittier native Kelly Fremon Craig, the writer-director of ‘Edge of Seventeen,’ talks about convincing the author to adapt her work.
Judy Blume is one of America’s most beloved authors of children’s and young adult novels. Her books – “Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing,” “Blubber,” “Then Again, Maybe I Won’t” to name a few – have sold more than 80 million copies over the last half-century., who is also the subject of the documentary “Judy Blume Forever,” has largely resisted giving permission to filmmakers for adaptations… until now.
Growing up, Craig loved reading, and Blume’s “Forever” – forbidden fruit for sixth graders across the generations – was the first book she read in one sitting.“I was running around Whittier with one of those huge old dinosaur video cameras with the whole VHS tape that goes inside and shooting music videos with my friends, trying to re-enact what we’d seen on MTV,” she recalled.
Part of what makes her so incredible is that she writes with such brave honesty about all the little embarrassing details of life. There’s an electrifying honesty that feels a little scary Q. Early in your career, you’d sold some screenplays that didn’t get made or were made but were heavily rewritten. Was that difficult to accept?
I cannot explain the dramatic difference between 2016 and today and a lot of that has to do with #MeToo. There was a huge cultural shift and suddenly the industry went from making it seem like they were taking a big chance on a female director telling female stories – that was seen as a liability – to today where there’s more of a spirit of celebrating those stories and women telling them. We still have a ways to go but we’ve come a long way.
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