Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Crooklyn”

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How did Zelda get the part?

Before she was cast as the protagonist in Spike’s film, people had been telling Zelda Harris for a while that she should be an actress. Though she had appeared on Sesame Street and an episode of “I’ll Fly Away,” in 1994, she told Entertainment Weekly that she was very nervous when she went in for her audition: ‘So scary. All these things were zipping through my head. The devil in me was like, ‘Go ask for his autograph!’ But my own voice was saying, ‘No, no, no. You wanna get this part.” We’re glad she was able to swing it because she truly made that movie. Zelda, who seemed to be pretty wise for a 9 year old, said back in 1994, that she wanted Troy to be remembered: ”In the year 3000, when everybody’s walking around in tinfoil, I want them to remember that girl who was in Crooklyn.”

It’s not quite the year 3,000 yet, but we certainly remember little Troy.

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