{"id":785020,"date":"2026-09-28T06:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785020\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T06:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T06:44:22","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-to-play-ginger-rogers-in-fred-astaire-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785020\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter to Play Ginger Rogers in Fred Astaire Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> is slipping into Ginger Rogers\u2019 shoes for a new biopic. The Man\u2019s Best Friend<\/a> singer has been tapped (pun very much intended) to play the silver-screen legend in a still-untitled Paul King film about Fred Astaire, Deadline<\/a> reports. Tom Holland will star as the Old Hollywood triple-threat, while Margaret Qualley will play the performer\u2019s older sister, Adele, one of Astaire\u2019s earliest dance partners and a star on Broadway and London\u2019s West End in her own right.<\/p>\n

\u201cFred left a timeless legacy of dance on film, most famously in his collaborations with Ginger Rogers, while Adele\u2019s work has been lost to history; indeed, no footage of her dancing survives,\u201d King shared in a statement. \u201dThe cinematic challenge of bringing to life these icons of the 20th century is one that I could not imagine without Tom Holland, Margaret Qualley and Sabrina Carpenter by my side.\u201d<\/p>\n

The casting announcement caps off an already-stacked year for Carpenter, who has performed<\/a> at the Grammys<\/a>, headlined Coachella<\/a>, and collaborated<\/a> with Madonna<\/a> over the past few months. She also won her first Emmy<\/a> for executive producing and performing in The Muppet Show.<\/p>\n

Read about Man\u2019s Best Friend at No. 17 in The 30 Best Pop Albums of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter is slipping into Ginger Rogers\u2019 shoes for a new biopic. The Man\u2019s Best Friend singer has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,50,15515,1012,56,54,55,307],"class_list":["post-785020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-sabrina-carpenter","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}