Lottie is dying and Ellie wants to make peace with her before it’s too late. Now seventeen, Ellie has returned home to Hobart for the first time in years. The experience left Ellie deeply traumatised and estranged from people she loved. Granddaughter of the infamous Lottie Lovinger, as a child Ellie shared the silver screen with Lottie in her one-and-only role playing the child monster in a cult horror movie. In a neo-Gothic mansion in a city at the end of the world, Ellie finds there’s room enough for art, family, forgiveness and love.Įllie Marsden was born into the legendary Lovinger acting dynasty. And in developing a line of questioning I pretty much came up with my story, which is It was a little bit my love for Drew Barrymore (a renowned child-actor), a deep-down admiration for horror movies, Hollywood as the epicentre to kick-off the #MeToo movement, the rolodex brain I have for Internet Movie Database (IMDb) behind-the-scenes movie trivia … all culminating in me attending ‘Books at MIFF’ at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2017 and in my role as literary agent and pitching my author’s books for potential adaptation finding myself sitting opposite a movie producer who’d worked on a horror film starring a child actor and me having the impulse to ask them if they’d be willing to see if the actor’s parents were willing to be interviewed by me for this idea I had. The Monster of Her Age was cooked up in a very strange pop-culture cauldron “what if?”
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