Kerry Washington to Star in Biopic ROCKAWAY at Netflix That Follows Memoir of Journalist Turned Surfer Diane Cardwell

Movie Rockaway Kerry Washington about 3 years agoby Jessica Fisher

Emmy-winner Kerry Washington (Little Fires Everywhere, American Son) is set to star in and produce the biopic Rockaway that is heading to Netflix, based on Diane Cardwell’s memoir, Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life. The film is being adapted by NAACP Image Award winner Nichelle Tramble Spellman, creator of Truth Be Told at Apple TV+.

In the movie, “Washington will play a Manhattan-based journalist who unexpectedly discovers the transcendent power of surfing while on a routine assignment, and finds herself running from the comfortable life she’s always known toward a life of romance and self-discovery in eclectic Rockaway Beach.” Published in July 2020, Rockaway: Surfing Headlong Into a New Life tells the story of the Cardwell’s own reinvention as she discovered the world of surfing.

This sounds like a great story for Washington to take on. I can’t wait to check out it.

via: Variety

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