Not just anyone can be Elizabeth Smart.
Lifetime announced this week who will play Smart in a new movie, which will retell true-life events about the woman who was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 at 14 years old and held captive against her will for nine months.
Alana Boden will star as Smart in the forthcoming film called, "I Am Elizabeth Smart," which is set to be released later this year in conjunction with a new A&E Network biography detailing her life, according to Deadline.
Boden currently stars in Nickelodeon's "Ride." She has previously appeared on BBC's "Wolfblood" and AMC's "Humans."
Skeet Ulrich, of CW's "Riverdale" and known for his role as Billy in "Scream," will play Smart's captor, Brian David Mitchell — and Deirdre Lovejoy of NBC's "The Blacklist" will play Wanda Barzee, Mitchell's co-conspirator.
The Lifetime movie will be told from the perspective of Smart, who will also produce and narrate the film, and include new, never-been-told information about her experience, Deadline wrote.
The movie will be released almost 15 years after Smart was kidnapped.
The Deseret News reported that this movie will be different from previous films about Smart's life because it will allow her to tell her story in her own words.
Read more about the Lifetime movie and the A&E Network biography on Deadline here.
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