Storm Reid tried to play it cool when Ava DuVernay told her she’d gotten the lead role in Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” but it wasn’t long before the tears started flowing.
“I flipped out,” says Reid, now 14 and in the ninth grade.
The Atlanta native started acting at age 3 after she told her mother that she wanted to be a “stuperstar.”
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