Kathleen Barber is the author of Truth Be Told (2017, originally published as Are You Sleeping), which was adapted into a series on AppleTV+ by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine media company, and Follow Me (2020). A graduate of the University of Illinois and Northwestern University School of Law, she now lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and children.
Here Barber dreamcasts an adaptation of her new novel, Both Things Are True:
I dreamcast on vibes rather than strictly on how well an actor physically resembles my character. So when I think about who I would cast to play Vanessa, the yoga influencer and hopeless romantic at the center of Both Things Are True, I imagine a cross between Sarah Jones, who played Tracy Stevens in For All Mankind, and Suki Waterhouse. Both have the energy and pluck that I envision for Vanessa.Visit Kathleen Barber's website.
For Sam, Vanessa's love interest, I feel like it's cliché to dreamcast Andrew Garfield in a romantic comedy, but he's the closest to Sam's vibe.
And then for Jack, Vanessa's ex-fiancé who flees the country under fraud allegations, I'd cast Glen Powell, largely on the based on the smarmy character he played on Scream Queens.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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