She cast Billy as an extra in that film, "Bugcrush" (which went on to win the prize for best short at Sundance last year), but resolved to give her new young friend, who seemed both troubled and precocious, more screen time in a project of her own.
Soon, a young Jesus was on screen asking precocious questions of startled rabbis.
In the video, premiering today on THUMP, we find Freedia surrounded by an ensemble of dancing tweens outfitted in plaid and denim, commanding the screen with precocious skill and and magisterial confidence to match.
We therefore adapted a protocol used to manually screen for precocious 2° islet formation at 5 dpf (Rovira et al., 2011) to the task of detecting increased β-cell numbers (>YFP fluorescence) via ARQiv.
"Will there be bad guys?" a precocious toddler inquired at the screening I attended.
Roald Dahl's story of a precocious schoolgirl hit the big screen in a 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito, who also played Matilda's father, Mr Wormwood.
We previously visualized precocious 2° islet formation in a manual chemical screen of a library of largely FDA-approved drugs (Johns Hopkins Drug Library JHDLL) to identify six compounds that induced endocrine differentiation (Rovira et al., 2011).
As a child actor, her precocious nature and startling maturity made her an engaging and unique screen presence but she still relies on a slightly over-emphatic form of acting that makes the breakdown scenes here feel false.
But back in 2000, the full-lipped actress, now 26, made her small-screen debut on "Sex and the City" as Jenny Brier, a spoiled, precocious 13-year-old who hired Samantha to plan her bat mitzvah.
Ms. Reboux's extraordinary performance conveys Anaïs's mixture of precocious insight, animal canniness and vulnerability so powerfully that it ranks among the richest screen portrayals of a child ever filmed.
