EXCLUSIVE: Following a global casting search, rising star Yasmin Finney, the 17-year-old Black Trans woman from Manchester, England, has landed a lead role in Orion Pictures’ What If?, the first project announced under the leadership of Orion President Alan Mayo.
Emmy-winning Pose star Billy Porter is stepping behind the camera for the first time, directing the drama from a script by Alvaro García Lecuona.Finney will star as Kelsa, a Trans high school senior in this modern coming-of-age story.
After Khal posts online about his school crush, the internet encourages him to go for it. What If? tells the story of Kelsa and Khal navigating a high school senior year relationship that neither could have expectedChristine Vachon is producing the
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