Hannah Marks on the Long Journey To Bring John Green’s ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ To the Screen
variety.comJenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Hannah Marks started acting when she was 6 years old, after seeing her mother’s acting reel.
And she’s pretty much worked nonstop, from roles in the films “Accepted” and “The Runaways” to the cast of “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.” In fact, just last year she took her first vacation — though she confesses to recording several self-tapes during it.
In recent years, she has also made a (forgive me) mark behind the camera as a filmmaker, beginning with writing and directing “After Everything,” The indie film starred Jeremy Allen White as a young man diagnosed with bone cancer who embarks on a new relationship, premiering at the SXSW Film Festival in 2018.
That same year, she landed the coveted directing job of the film adaptation of John Green’s beloved novel “Turtles All the Way Down.” The story focuses on a teenage girl named Aza (Isabela Merced) struggling with crippling obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety.
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