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Bernadette Peters Talks ‘Annie Live!’s Diverse Casting & Teases Return Of ‘Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist’

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Emmy Award nominee Bernadette Peters fully supports the casting of young Black actress Celina Smithto lead NBC’s Annie Live!, a musical TV special with Smith portraying little orphan Annie.“Yes, I think as long as it makes sense, and I think it does,” Peters, who starred in the 1982 film Annie, told Deadline at the Creative Emmy Awards on Sunday. “I think that was a fabulous idea.

I think changing casting and making things more diverse is a great idea.”The Annie character was born in the 1924 comic strip created by Harold Gray as a young white girl with curly red hair, which is how the character was portrayed on Broadway and in the 1982 film.A 2014 contemporary remake of the 1982 film also titled Annie, cast Quvenzhané Wallis as the titular

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