at a local community college. She’s also a co-host of the pop culture podcast, Pretty Much Pop. From Northern California, she now lives in Philadelphia with her family.
Here Bruck dreamcasts an adaptation of Light of the Fire:
If they make Light of the Fire into a film, here’s who I’d like to play the lead roles of Beth, Ally, and Jordan.Visit Sarahlyn Bruck's website.
Beth is a professional soccer player—a goal keeper. I envision her as tall and lanky, with far reaching arms, and long, light brown hair that’s almost always pulled into a ponytail. Originally, I envisioned actual soccer players for the two leads as I wrote the first draft. But the actress who could capture her athleticism, competitiveness, and independence would be someone like Mackenzie Davis. She’s tall, the right age, and she has something about her that could inhabit the character of Beth.
Ally used to play soccer, too. She’s smaller than Beth and has a classic soccer build with muscular legs and lean torso. In high school she wore her hair short and she’s never let it get too long. She had her daughters in her early twenties, dropped out of college and soccer, divorced her first husband, and now finds herself unexpectedly pregnant in her late 30s with her newish boyfriend, Noah. Over the years, Ally has worked her butt off and founded an all-girls soccer league in her hometown—something she’d wished she and Beth had been able to benefit from as kids but now can give to her own girls. She’s got a lot of literal and proverbial balls in the air, so someone I think can capture Ally’s energy is Anna Kendrick.
So Jordan. He’s a journalist, which means he’s curious and intelligent. And for the first time, he’s seeing his father in a new light—as someone who was possibly blamed and punished for something he didn’t do. Subsequently, Jordan, his mom, and sister suffered, too. In his mind, the least he could do now that his father’s health is on the decline is to try to clear his name and make up for not being the son his dad needed him in the last 20 years. The actor I could see in this role is Jesse Williams. Most people know him from Grey’s Anatomy, but I enjoyed his performance in the latest season of Only Murders in the Building. Williams brings both an academic intelligence as well as an emotional intelligence that I think serve Jordan really well as an investigative reporter and genuinely caring guy, who wants to do the right thing.
--Marshal Zeringue
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