![]() “That was really cool.” He has football to thank for his acting career he was 20 when he left school to pursue a career in front of the cameras. He played football at Kansas State University, “in front of 60,000 fans at every home game,” he says. ![]() Based on the New York Times best-seller from Nicola Yoon, the film. But I think my favorite movie I watched with my dad would be ‘A Knight’s Tale’ with Heath Ledger.” Riverdale breakout Charles Melton has been tapped to star opposite Yara Shahidi in the YA adaptation The Sun Is Also a Star. We watched everything: ‘The Matrix,’ ‘Armageddon,’ ‘How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,’ ‘The Notebook,’ the Marvel Universe movies. “I’d go to the movies every week, multiple times a week, with my dad or alone. “Growing up, my best friend was the movie theaters,” he says. Melton grew up in Juneau, Alaska, but moved around frequently due to his father’s job in the military and by the age of 18 had lived in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Kansas, Korea and Germany. “When I told him I was playing Reggie Mantle, he was pretty pumped up and excited,” he says of his father. His father was a big fan of the Archie comics and told Melton that his experience as a high school athlete would make playing the character of football bro Reggie Mantle a natural fit. I’m very passionate about the role and knew that I wanted to play that role.” “I reached out to my reps, I was like ‘guys, get me the script.’ They were like, ‘Charles, they just announced the news today.’ So I bought the book, read it in two days, fast-forward 10 months, got the script, auditioned for it. and MGM and so that same day I bought the book,” Melton says. And I found out that day that she was asking these questions to the fans, that it was being turned into a movie by Warner Bros. “I was on my social media and I woke up to being tagged in Nicola Yoon posted, asking her followers who should play Daniel Bae. Just as “Riverdale” will wrap its third season, he’ll jump to the big screen and costar alongside Yara Shahidi in the May release of the film adaptation of young adult novel “The Sun Is Also a Star,” based on the number-one New York Times bestseller by Nicola Yoon. Melton has grown up, he says, and he’s ready to be taken seriously. There’s a bit of Melton his team would prefer he not discuss: his relationship with costar Camila Mendes, along with a spout of bad press from earlier this year when tweets from 2012 landed him in hot water. Running around the city, she’s also on a reluctant farewell tour, taking an extra beat here and there to really absorb her surroundings - like stopping to gaze up wistfully at the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal.The 27-year-old is in demand these days, as his character on “Riverdale” has been bumped up to a series regular for the mammoth show’s third season. We meet her on the day before their scheduled deportation, as she rushes to a meeting at the immigration office and then, in desperation, to another “last shot” plea with a lawyer who has been known to do miracles. She considers New York her home, so much so that she’s decided to fight the system against all odds and to the last second, even though her parents are resigned to leaving. Shahidi plays Natasha Kingsley, a high school student whose family is facing imminent deportation to Jamaica. And both parties involved in said romance have other things going on in their lives that are much more compelling than their love-at-first-sight. That makes it all the more frustrating, then, that the driving engine behind the film - a whirlwind 24-hour romance - is contrived, underwhelming and perhaps worst of all, unconvincing. Even the MTA is (kind of) beautiful.ĭirector Ry Russo-Young’s film is shot by cinematographer Autumn Durald with such precision it’s impossible not to get a little swoony over the fact that the filmmaker clearly did not phone it in for this adaptation of a popular young adult book. The TV stars Yara Shahidi of “grown-ish” and Charles Melton of “Riverdale” are beautiful. ‘The Sun Is Also a Star” is a beautiful looking film.
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