Where'd You Go, Bernadette
It's the Tuesday morning after said premiere, and this entire week has been a whole new world for Nelson—her first premiere, her first press tour, and, the glue that's holding it all together, her first movie.
According to Blanchett, as soon as Nelson left the room, they knew they had found their Bee. Unfortunately for Nelson, however, it was an excruciating few weeks before she heard the news. "Every time the phone rang, I jumped," she said. But then, the call did come. This part, she doesn't remember quite so well. "I get asked a lot, ‘What was that moment like?’" she said. "I wish I could remember. It was indescribable. I just felt like the luckiest girl in the world.
The film wrapped shooting at the end of summer 2017, meaning Nelson had to return to her normal life as an eighth grade student in the suburbs of Chicago. The catch? She couldn't tell anyone about her spectacular summer vacation. "Middle school sucks," she said. "I went back to eighth grade, and it was bad. I got broken up with the first day I went back to school, and I didn’t really have that many friends. I felt like I had to start from scratch...