America Ferrera’s New Film To Be Shown At Plaza Classic

After four years playing an exuberant young office worker on TV comedy “Ugly Betty,” actress America Ferrera is all grown up and taking a decidedly more serious turn in a movie she worked tirelessly to make.

The actress, who won an Emmy and a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of the fashion-challenged, brace-wearing Betty, is starring in independent film drama “The Dry Land,” which opens in major U.S. cities on Friday and was written and directed by her fiancee Ryan Piers Williams.

“I feel like it’s a new chapter in my career,” Ferrera told Reuters. “This is my first role as a woman dealing with really grown up issues.”

The movie has earned mostly positive early reviews and scored a 63 percent positive rating among a group of eight critics polled by movie website rottentomatoes.com.

Read the full Reuters article here.

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