Olivia Cooke Lands the Lead in Spielberg's 'Ready Player One' Movie

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From Dying Girl to OASIS. Spielberg has cast the first major role in his upcoming adaptation of the beloved geek novel Ready Player One. Actress Olivia Cooke, last seen in this year’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (read my Sundance review), will star in Ready Player One as “Art3mis”, one of the players that the lead character Wade Watts (or “Parzival”) befriends and eventually falls for. While it’s likely that Spielberg is also seeing actors for the other lead roles, no other names have been confirmed yet, and Cooke is the first one officially cast. THR seems to hint she has been offered the role, but is the only one with an offer so far. ›››

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