Exclusive: Isabel Hagen’s Indie dramedy On A String just wrapped principal photography in New York City.
Musician-turned-comedian Hagen (writer-director) stars alongside Dylan Baker, Frederick Weller, Eric Bogosian & Emmy Winner Jamie Lee (HBO’s Crashing). Concert violinist and author Ling Ling Huang (Natural Beauty) also stars with newcomer John Kroner and Charlotte Ray Rosenberg. Hagen is known for her late-night appearances on Jimmy Fallon, and as a New Face of Comedy in 2019 for the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.
Inspired by Hagen’s real-life experiences, the pic follows a recent Juilliard graduate and classical violist (Hagen) who now plays unconventional gigs in New York City that insert her into the personal lives of strangers and entangle her with the married father (Weller) of her violin student.
Musician-turned-comedian Hagen (writer-director) stars alongside Dylan Baker, Frederick Weller, Eric Bogosian & Emmy Winner Jamie Lee (HBO’s Crashing). Concert violinist and author Ling Ling Huang (Natural Beauty) also stars with newcomer John Kroner and Charlotte Ray Rosenberg. Hagen is known for her late-night appearances on Jimmy Fallon, and as a New Face of Comedy in 2019 for the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.
Inspired by Hagen’s real-life experiences, the pic follows a recent Juilliard graduate and classical violist (Hagen) who now plays unconventional gigs in New York City that insert her into the personal lives of strangers and entangle her with the married father (Weller) of her violin student.
- 12/8/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In a very competitive situation, eOne has landed the rights to Natural Beauty, the debut novel by writer and concert violinist Ling Ling Huang, to develop for television. The series will be produced by Constance Wu, via her Tempo Wubato Productions, and Yellowjackets executive producer Drew Comins, via his Creative Engine Entertainment, under their deals at eOne.
Natural Beauty will be published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in April 2023. In it, after a family tragedy derails a virtuoso pianist’s promising future, she finds herself recruited to work at an elite wellness company where beauty secretly comes at a horrific cost. A mix of the horror and social commentary of Get Out and the intoxicating company culture of The Dropout set within the world of beauty & wellness, Natural Beauty is a sardonic, pitch-black exposé of how the beauty industry does the dirty work of supremacy culture.
Natural Beauty will be published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in April 2023. In it, after a family tragedy derails a virtuoso pianist’s promising future, she finds herself recruited to work at an elite wellness company where beauty secretly comes at a horrific cost. A mix of the horror and social commentary of Get Out and the intoxicating company culture of The Dropout set within the world of beauty & wellness, Natural Beauty is a sardonic, pitch-black exposé of how the beauty industry does the dirty work of supremacy culture.
- 8/15/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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