Fan CastingBastard Out of Carolina (2025's Remake)

Set in the 1950s, Bastard Out of Carolina is based on the semi-biographical novel by Dorothy Allison. The main story covers the childhood and adolescence of Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatwright against the backdrop of poverty, class-based discrimination, and both physical and sexual abuse. Like much of Allison’s work, Bastard out of Carolina engages thematically with the experiences of the working class and working poor in the American South, coming of age, the intersection of gender, sexuality, and class, and the impact of abuse on early childhood and adolescent development.read more