{"id":1022,"date":"2026-09-25T23:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:18:29","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-margaret-qualley-join-tom-holland-for-fred-astaire-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter, Margaret Qualley join Tom Holland for Fred Astaire film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-09-25\/Getty_SabrinaCarpenter_092526.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Sabrina Carpenter attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating &#8220;Costume Art&#8221; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sabrina Carpenter and Margaret Qualley are joining Tom Holland on the dance floor.<\/p>\n<p>The two are set to star opposite Holland in Sony Pictures\u2019 upcoming Fred Astaire film. Carpenter will play Astaire\u2019s frequent on-screen dance partner Ginger Rogers. Qualley will play his sister Adele Astaire.\u00a0The brother and sister duo\u00a0performed together on Broadway and London\u2019s West End before Fred Astaire made it big in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>The currently untitled film, directed by Paul King, is based on the book <em>The Astaires: Fred &amp; Adele<\/em> by Kathleen Riley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled and honored to have been entrusted with telling the story of Fred Astaire and his original dance partner \u2014 his big sister Adele \u2014 to the big screen,\u201d King said in a statement. \u201cFred left a timeless legacy of dance on film \u2014 most famously in his collaborations with Ginger Rogers\u00a0\u2014 while Adele\u2019s work has been lost to history; indeed, no footage of her dancing survives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cinematic challenge of bringing to life these icons of the twentieth century is one that I could not imagine without Tom Holland, Margaret Qualley and Sabrina Carpenter by my side,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Back in July, Holland told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GykWruHC5fQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Good Morning America<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that he was about to head back into the dance studio in preparation for the role. \u201cI did my first few rehearsals recently, and it both filled me with excitement and absolute dread,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause I\u2019ve got so much work to do to try to do Fred proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabrina Carpenter attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating &#8220;Costume Art&#8221; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola\/Getty Images) Sabrina Carpenter and Margaret Qualley are joining Tom Holland on the dance floor. The two are set to star opposite Holland in Sony Pictures\u2019 upcoming Fred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}