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Daisy Edgar-Jones Is the Summer’s Breakout Star. Can She Be the Next Julia Roberts?
Daisy Edgar-Jones was the season’s breakout star. She joins Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney as young actresses on which the studios will bet.
Amid a grueling day of back-to-back interviews, Daisy Edgar-Jones, who plays the film’s heroine, grabbed her co-stars Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos and taught them the Charli XCX “Apple” dance. There’s little doubt from Universal’s perspective that Edgar-Jones’ approach filled seats at the multiplex, helping propel the film to a massive $81 million opening in the U.S. and Canada — the highest domestic debut ever in the natural disaster subgenre. Even more enticing to studio executives, Edgar-Jones harks back to the classic ’90s female movie star — accessible and aspirational, in the vein of Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock, who signaled to audiences that being a Hollywood A-lister was fun rather than a burden.
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