Director Shawn Levy and screenwriter Steven Knight explain how they brought blind heroine Marie-Laure to life—including the search for star Aria Mia Loberti.
Upon its release in 2014, Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and landed on The New York Times best-seller list for 200 weeks. With such high expectations, adapting the novel for the screen was never going to be an easy feat, especially when it came to casting the lead role of Marie-Laure LeBlanc.
''That's important to bring to the screen,' she explained in Netflix's All the Light We Cannot See featurette.A passionate advocate for blind and visually-impaired people, in 2018 Loberti delivered a TED talk on her experiences growing up with a disability and has acted as a youth delegate to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women .
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