Romeo San Vicente • 07-05-24
Kristen Stewart to star in Sally Ride biopic Kristen Stewart is the kind of movie star who can turn chameleon character actor anytime she chooses.
She’s played real-life people as unalike as Princess Diana, Jean Seberg and Joan Jett, and next she’ll take on the role of pioneering astronaut Sally Ride in The Challenger for her first TV series starring role.
From screenwriter and show runner Maggie Cohn (Narcos: Mexico), it’s the story of the first American woman — and first queer person — to fly on the space shuttle in 1983.
Tragedy struck the Challenger three years later, though, when it exploded on its ascent, and Ride became part of the presidential commission to investigate the disaster, eventually identifying the structural flaws of the craft, earning her legacy as a real American hero.
