The Amazon Prime Video series adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s comic book Paper Girls has found its cast. Sofia Rosinsky (Fast Layne) will play Mac, Camryn Jones (Cherish the Day) plays Tiffany, Riley Lai Nelet (Altered Carbon) plays Erin, and Fina Strazza (A Christmas Melody) plays KJ.
The Paper Girls comic starts out as an ’80s-set coming-of-age story, but then things take a wild time-traveling twist.
Rosinsky may be best known for playing Zora Morris on Disney’s short-lived series Fast Layne. On Paper Girls, she plays Mac Coyle.
A working-class Catholic girl, Mac is the first paperboy in Stony Stream who isn’t a boy. Mac inherited the paper route from her older brother, someone for whom she has undying loyalty and love… which might be the wrong place to put it. Mac’s toughness however is no act, she has a sharp tongue and quicker fists. Like most bullies, however, Mac is perhaps masking a deep well of insecurity. Usually a loner by choice, events conspire to cast Mac as the unlikely leader of our Paper Girls on Hell Day 1988.
Jones appeared in the TV series Cherish the Day and Perpetual Grace, LTD. Her Paper Girls role is Tiffany Quilkin.
The only child of success-oriented, mixed-race parents, Tiffany has big plans for her future and no intention of seeing them derailed. While she is at times willing to improve on the truth when in a tight spot, there is no denying that Tiffany is crazy smart. She boasts an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture, a love of gadgets and technology. She has been delivering papers for a little over a year.
Lai Nelet previously appeared in Altered Carbon. On Paper Girls, she plays Erin Tieng.
A dutiful daughter, sister, and yes, newly-minted newspaper employee, Erin often feels caught between worlds. On the one hand, she’s a dual-language immigrant with deep Chinese roots, on the other, she’s an All-American kid on the verge of her teenage years who desperately wants the TV-perfect life she often sees depicted in the Western culture all around her.
Strazza most recently appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. On Paper Girls, she portrays KJ Brandman.
KJ is one of the only Jewish girls in Stony Stream and comes from the wealthiest family in town, two things nobody will let her forget. It is perhaps only when playing field hockey that she feels truly seen – an image that conflicts starkly with her mother’s desires for her. KJ is guarded, sensitive and underneath her veneer, emotionally roiling. She doesn’t need the paper-delivery job, but it makes her feel free.
Paper Girls hails from Amazon Studios, Legendary TV, and Plan B. Stephany Folsom (Toy Story 4) is writing and along with and Christopher C. Rogers will serve as co-showrunner. Both will executive produce with Christopher Cantwell. The show is set to begin filming in the Chicago area later this year.
Readers of the comic know that the TV show still needs to announce who is playing these four characters as adults. Check back for that news and other updates on Paper Girls as they arrive.
Source: Deadline
