The cast is epic

You know about Saoirse Ronan, but wait until you hear about who else is starring in this movie.

Beautiful Meg, the oldest and most measured of the sisters, will be played by Emma Watson after Emma Stone pulled out. Beth, who loves her piano and her sisters and only wants to help people, will be played by Australian actress Eliza Scanlen, last seen in Amy Adams’ Sharp Objects. (Before that her best-known credit was as Summer Bay’s Tabitha Ford on Home & Away.)

The role of Amy, proud and stuck-up but infinitely loveable, went to Florence Pugh, currently charming audiences in the BBC’s Little Drummer Girl. Laura Dern (!!) will be Marmee, the March family’s matriarch and – very deep breaths – Meryl Streep (!!!) will play Aunt March, upon whose financial benevolence the March sisters rely.

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