Fan CastingThe Vanishing Half

Book to Screen Adaptation

by Brit Bennett

Story added by ahalyabala on December 20, 2021

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their o...read more

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Fan Casting Desiree/Stella Vignes(1968)

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Description of Desiree/Stella Vignes (1968):

Ethnically ambiguous 30 year-old women from the town of Mallard, Louisiana. "Skin the colour of sand", hazel eyes and long, wavy hair. Passable as white.