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Amélie Hoeferle was a 14-year-old girl waiting for her mom at a Cleveland, Tennessee, coffee shop, when a woman in her 20s approached her for a conversation that would change the trajectory of her life and career.
She’d just finished her homework up and was nearing the exit when the young woman stopped her. “She said, ‘I know this is going to sound really weird, and it’s really freaking me out. I’m writing a screenplay right now and you look exactly how I imagine this character to be,’” a present-day Hoeferle tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Neither Hoeferle or her mother knew what to make of it, but Hoeferle was never afraid of the woman nor scared of the situation. That 20-something woman, writer-director Erica Scoggins, it turns out, was a family friend, so a meeting was set to talk about the script. They spent hours talking and ended up making a short film together.
“That was my introduction to film,” says Hoferle. “We went to a couple film festivals with it and flew to France. Erica’s really the main reason why I thought it would even be an option for me in life to do this.”
