She is a mother, and resigned to a not - so - loving marriage, but her visit home reminds her of the love of her life, her high
school boyfriend played by Timothy Olyphant, who has a sweet, sad subplot.
Not exact matches
«Obvious Child» features Jenny Slate in an eye - opening turn as Donna Stern, a stand - up comic who loses her job, breaks up with her
boyfriend and ends up getting pregnant after a one night stand with an earnest young business
school student named Max,
played by Jake Lacy.
The muse for the character of Danny (
played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high
school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.
«Nashville» actress Connie Britton portrays the girlfriend of Driver's character Phillip, while «Neighbors» actress Rose Byrne
plays a high
school acquaintance of Bateman's character Judd and «Justified» actor Timothy Olyphant portrays the high
school boyfriend of Fey's character, Wendy.
Suzu Hirose - the eponymous sibling of Hirokazu Koreeda's Our Little Sister
plays the energetic, though less than able Hikari, who signs up for the high
school cheer dancing team so she can support her sometime
boyfriend.
In Lady Bird, characters do indeed come and go, including two
boyfriends —
played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges and Call Me By Your Name heartthrob Timothée Chalamet — and a host of bratty classmates at her all - girl Catholic
school, but none are more important than her BFF Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and her exhausted parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Letts).
She
plays Elle Woods, the seemingly airheaded California girl who gets dumped by her aristocratic
boyfriend, enrols into Harvard Law
School to impress him and ends up a high - flying legal eagle in her own right.
Director R.J. Cutler's take on the material stars Chloë Grace Moretz as Mia, a talented young musician who balances her aspirations of attending the Juilliard
School with the budding romance of her devoted
boyfriend Adam,
played by Jamie Blackley.
Lucas Hedges, who
plays Lady Bird's
boyfriend, Danny, says, «The most unique thing about working with Greta is that it didn't feel like I was working with a director... It was never technical, it felt much more fluid and colorful and, like, it was a special relationship we had that was, like, meeting up with my friend after
school to work on a movie.»