AnnaSophia Robb has some big – not to mention fashionable – shoes to fill. The actress, 18, will play a high school version of the Manolo Blahnik-obsessed, love-chase of Carrie Bradshaw, a role made by Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City HBO, The Hollywood Reporter confirms.
The CW has ordered a pilot episode of The Carrie Diaries, which will chronicle adolescence in 80 days Bradshaw Manhattan, long before penning his sex column.
In addition to packing with Robb, who portrays real-life survivor Bethany Hamilton Soul Surfer in last year: The Killing of Katie Findlay and Scott Pilgrim vs. Ellen Wong worlds, which will play two friends Bradshaw – presumably before she met BFFs Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Samantha (Kim Cattrall) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon).
The series, which also star Running Wilde Stefania Owen Dorritt little sister Carrie, is based on author Candace Bushnell Sex and the City prequel of the same name. “So happy for carriediaries #!” Robb tweeted. “He was online before I even knew hahahaha oh technology.”
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