Canadian Songbird

I need more Maya Hawke content! Just finished watching Wildcat on Blu-ray. Above are all the roles she played: Flannery O'Connor, Lucynell, Julian, Mary Grace, Hulga, Sarah Ruth, and Star Drake.

Each role besides Flannery (the author and subject of the film) was a character in one of Flannery's short stories, and the movie explored her life and beliefs through her writing. The stories are hard, honest and uncompromising, like their author, so the movie is not light fare. But it is challenging, absorbing, and in the end moving, as Flannery comes to grips with her relationship with her mother, the place where her writing and beliefs intersect, and the lupus that will end her life at 39.

Maya was marvelous! One can see why she connected with this author at a young age and strove to get the movie rights from the time she got into acting. Both are intelligent, determined, articulate, very talented women!