Cailey Fleming’s experience on The Walking Dead prepared her for her first lead role in IF, earning praise from co-stars Ryan Reynolds and John Krasinski. In IF, she plays Bea, teaming up with Reynolds to match forgotten imaginary friends with kids in a heartwarming adventure.
For someone so young, actress Cailey Fleming has already carved out a place for herself in Hollywood. John Krasinski’s family-friendly IF may be her first leading role in a feature film, but Fleming has tons of experience from her breakout role as Judith Grimes in The Walking Dead and landing major Disney projects such as “Young Rey” in the Star Wars universe and “Kid Sylvie” in the MCU series Loki.
John Krasinski (Via IMDB)
In the movie, Fleming gets to flex her dramatic chops, and while she admits she was a little nervous, co-stars Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool & Wolverine) and Krasinski made it “the best experience all around.” In the film, Fleming plays Bea, a little girl who’s dealing with big issues. As she’s managing her day-to-day the best she can, Bea begins seeing bizarre, magical creatures that she learns are forgotten imaginary friends, or IFs, if you will. Come to find out, her neighbor, Cal (Reynolds), can see them too, but he’s none too happy about it. Together, they team up to match the IFs with kids before it’s too late. To provide the voices for this wacky ensemble, Krasinski enlisted the talent of his former co-star Steve Carell (The Office), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Matt Damon (The Martian), and tons more.
Fleming talks about getting to work with some of the best in Hollywood and what she was most excited about when stepping on set. She also shares how co-star and writer-director Krasinski transformed a particularly difficult scene into something unforgettably special, the scene she was most excited to shoot, and why Reynolds made a pretty stellar co-star.
