Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJordan Fisher got quite emotional when he saw the poster for his new Netflix coming-of-age comedy “Work It” because the cast is so diverse.
Of the nine actors featured on the poster, seven are people of color. “It literally made me shed a tear,” the actor, who is multiethnic, says on this week’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket,”, adding, “I love to see the way that America is shaped now.”The movie, which premiered on the streamer today, stars Sabrina Carpenter as Quinn, a high school senior who must form a dance team in time for the big championship competition in hopes of impressing a college admissions officer (Michelle Buteau).
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