With Little, the Black-ish actress is going where no tween has gone before: executive-producing a big-budget Hollywood film.
Four years ago, a 10-year-old girl marched into Universal Studios’ headquarters wearing a green floral blazer, her hair slicked back into a she-means-business bun. Marsai Martin had an idea. “I was feeling fresh, to be honest,” says the actress, now 14. She had just wrapped her first season of ABC’s Peabody winning sitcom Black-ish, in which she plays the Johnson family’s brainiac youngest daughter, Diane. At Martin’s side was series creator Kenya Barris. Earlier that day, they’d calmed their nerves and perfected her pitch over a breakfast of waffles. She was ready.
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