EXCLUSIVE: The Netflix sports drama Perfect will no longer be moving forward at the streamer after star Millie Bobby Brown exited the project. Sources say Brown’s departure had to do with creative differences with producers.
Brown was set to play Olympic gymnast Kerri Strug in the pic, which was set to go into production this summer but will now be scrapped.
Netflix and Brown’s reps had no comment on her exit.
Deadline first reported last fall that Brown was set to star as the iconic Olympian, with Gia Coppola directing and Ronnie Sandahl writing the script. Coppola left the project earlier this year and was replaced by Cate Shortland. The film was set to follow Strug, a member of the 1996 USA women’s gymnastics team dubbed “the Magnificent Seven,” who played a huge role in clinching the team gold after performing the vault on
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