In Disney's "The Nutcracker and the Four
Realms," Mackenzie Foy stars as 14-year-old Clara, a girl who is
fascinated by engineering and is trying to figure out how to
unlock a Christmas gift left behind by her recently deceased
mother.
Clara soon finds herself in a beautiful but troubled parallel
universe where she encounters a nutcracker soldier, and the pair
embark on a dangerous search for the key to Clara's gift.
"I think it really truly captures that spirit, that feeling of
the holiday season, but it also has action and adventure and
excitement," Foy, best known for playing the daughter of Edward
and Bella in "The Twilight Saga," told Reuters at the film's
world premiere in Hollywood.
The film is based on E.T.A. Hoffman's short story written in
1816 and Alexandre Dumas' retelling in the 1892 Tchaikovsky
ballet "The Nutcracker," which is now performed on stages around
the world during the Christmas season.
Disney's film includes just a fraction of the ballet of a
typical stage production of "The Nutcracker." In the movie,
American Ballet Theater star Misty Copeland and Ukrainian dancer
Sergei Polunin perform in a pageant for Clara after she arrives
in the Land of Sweets.
Keira Knightley plays the Sugar Plum Fairy, who in the film
does not dance but welcomes Clara to the Four Realms with her
over-the-top sweetness and pink cotton candy hair. Knightley,
known for historical dramas such as "Pride & Prejudice," said
she enjoyed taking on a different type of role.
"I've been doing work that the subject matters are quite
serious," she said, "and it was very nice doing something that
was totally silly and not an ounce of subtlety in it."
(Reporting by Rollo Ross; Writing by Lisa Richwine; Editing by
Susan Thomas)
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