The first trailer for the bestselling debut novel by Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive, featuring Mila Kunis as Ani Fanelli, a woman who has created an amazing existence for herself in New York City, was released on Tuesday by Netflix.
There are deeper secrets from her past hidden under that facade. As she gets ready for her soon-to-be “lavish but classy” wedding to fiancé Luke, Ani agrees to be interviewed by a true-crime documentary film crew about surviving a brutal attack in high school.
“I am this close to the life no one thought I deserved,” Kunis’ Ani says in the trailer, later explaining, “I’ve carried this horrible thing with me alone for years, and it has built up this rage inside of me. I don’t know what’s me and what part I’ve invented.”
Ani is portrayed by Cruel Summer’s Chiara Aurelia in flashback scenes, and Connie Britton completes a complex mother-daughter connection. Along with Jennifer Beals, the movie also stars Scoot McNairy, Thomas Barbusca, Justine Lupe, Dalmar Abuzeid, Alex Barone, Carson MacCormac, and Mike Barker.
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Author Knoll, who also authored the script for the movie, claimed in a March 2016 blog that she, like the main heroine in her novel Luckiest Girl Alive, had been gang-raped as a teenager.
“The first person to tell me I was gang-raped was a therapist, seven years after the fact,” Knoll began the emotional essay at the time. “The second was my literary agent, five years later, only she wasn’t talking about me. She was talking about Ani, the protagonist of my novel, Luckiest Girl Alive, which is a work of fiction. What I’ve kept to myself, up until today, is that its inspiration is not.”
Speaking to Netflix’s TUDUM, Knoll explained of the movie, “There was so much of my own story and experience embedded in this character. It was really important to me that I be the one to tell it.”
Luckiest Girl Alive will be available in your nearest theatre on September 30 and Oct 7 on Netflix. Watch the trailer here.
