Sundance winner The Forty-Year-Old Version is a familiar story to anyone who hits the age of 40, as it makes one re-evaluate life and decide the next steps in one’s career and beyond.
For the film’s writer, director and star Radha Blank, it was a personal story — and driven by adversity.“It wasn’t something I thought hard about,” she says during the Netflix film’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film in regards to using her life as inspiration for the film. “It was more about the adversity in my life pushing me in this direction.
I got fired from my first film-writing job and pretty much like my character, I wanted to take my voice back.”She adds, “Making the film gave me an opportunity to tell a story about someone like me from my point of
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