Former FELICITY Star Riley Weston Scores Movie with Great American Family
By Movieguide® Contributor
Writer-actress, Riley Weston secures a film for the Great American Family Network. However, instead of acting, this time Weston wrote the screenplay for the film.
Weston told Deadline, “I love writing these rom-coms so much for a few reasons. First, I’m a diehard romantic who is still waiting for her own fairytale! Second, I love bringing joy to people, whether it’s through movies or music. My hope is that a movie like this can take people out of their work week for two hours and give them a little getaway from reality. They always make me feel hopeful and I try to get that feeling spread to the viewers. It’s also so awesome when I get to write a movie for friends. Trevor and I have wanted to work on something for a while now and this was the perfect project.”
Weston was originally known for her time as a “wunderkind” teenage staff writer for FELICITY. However, it was discovered that Weston lied about her age to find acting gigs.
“It’s been an accepted practice for actresses to lie about their age, especially in instances where they are always asked to play younger,” The Washington Post reported Weston said at the time. “I adopted an age appropriate for my physical appearance, never imagining I would one day become a writer. I could not be one age in the acting world and another in the writing world, so I chose to maintain the ruse. In a business fraught with age bias, I did what I felt I had to do to succeed.”
Weston originally wrote the screenplay for APPLES and many Hallmark films such as GOOD MORNING CHRISTMAS!, ALWAYS AND FOREVER, and THE NANNY EXPRESS.
In addition to writing, Weston writes and sings country songs. She often plays at the Bluebird Café in Nashville, Tennessee.
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