BELLA THORNE
The Former Disney Star Makes Brazen Moves
Bella Thorne has had an exciting career to date. She got her TV start as a preteen playing Margaux Darling in Dirty Sexy Money, Ruthy Spivey in My Own Worst Enemy and Tancy Henrickson in season four of Big Love. But it was her role as CeCe Jones opposite Zendaya‘s Rocky Blue on the Disney Channel Original Series Shake It Up that she became better known.
Like other former Disney Channel stars before her, Thorne has done her best to shed the teenybopper image and adopt a more provocative aesthetic. After Shake It Up ended in 2013, Thorne took edgier roles in shows like MTV’s Scream and the Netflix slasher movie The Babysitter. She even made her directorial debut with the short Her & Him: a movie made for Pornhub. It is an erotic cat-and-mouse game between a couple. Her & Him screened at the Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany before its Pornhub release.
Thorne has dyslexia and has spoken openly about her struggles and bullying she faced due to her learning disability. She is also pansexual and one of the first Disney Channel stars to open up about her sexuality.
Now, Thorne has a brand new movie on VOD and DVD that drops on June 12, 2020: Infamous. It’s about two young lovers and criminals, played by Thorne and Jake Manley. They become social media stars after footage of their armed robberies is posted online. As the young Bonnie and Clyde-like lovers ran from the authorities, their crimes escalated to maintain their social media glory.
Infamous was written and directed by Joshua Caldwell. In addition to Thorne and Manley, it stars Amber Riley, Michael Sirow and Marisa Coughlan. Vertical Entertainment is the distributor. Again, you can watch Infamous on-demand June 12.
