'Janet Planet' star Julianne Nicholson is proud to be a character actor Nicholson says when strangers recognize her on the street, they're never quite sure how they know her: "They might think I sold them kittens, or I work in the ice cream shop." And though there have still been times where it's felt a little shaky, I feel like …
The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Annie Baker’s first film Janet Planet is a delicate memory piece set in early-1990s hippie Massachusetts, following a sensitive, quirky 11-year-old named Lacy and her very close relationship with her mom, Janet. Janet is the planet Lacy orbits around, and the movie wouldn’t work if it weren’t for the lovely performance by Ziegler, a preteen making …
