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The Smallest Girl in the World
by Richard Horgan |
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12/19/2008 at 4:11:04 PM |
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If you want to catch a glimpse of 2009’s most remarkable impending movie star, set your DVR to record The Learning Channel’s re-broadcast of the documentary Incredibly Small: Kenadie’s Story this Sunday, December 21st at 8 p.m. For not only is (now) five-year-old Sault St. Marie, Canada resident Kenadie Jourdin-Bromley one of the very few people in the world to be afflicted with Primordial Dwarfism; she is also the only one of that small group of sufferers to headline her own fictional feature film.
Because of her profound growth delay, Bromley currently weights 14 pounds and stands at 2’ 7", though her miniaturized features are in all in perfect proportion to her small stature. After watching the aforementioned TLC documentary, Dutch filmmaker Rita Horst decided that Bromley would be perfect for the lead role of Viegeltje in her fantasy movie Iep! (Cheep!), about a half-bird, half-human little girl who is nursed back to health by a pair of bird watchers. It took a while, but Horst was finally able to convince Bromley’s parents to give the OK.
Bromley, who to put it another way clocks in at less than the combined weight of two Oscar statuettes, recently wrapped her feature debut after three months of filming in Holland, where she was accompanied by her mom and brother. There’s no doubt that as the movie’s fall 2009 European release approaches, she will become an object of much entertainment journalism fascination.
Iep! is based on a 1996 Dutch children’s book by Joke van Leeuwen, and afforded Bromley her own nanny, acting coach and trailer. Sweet success for someone who, when she was born in February of 2003, was given little chance by doctors of making it through her first night.
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