The role of Steve Jobs’ eldest daughter Lisa Jobs in the upcoming Universal movie biopic was previously described by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin as the story’s “heroine.”
Given some of the A-list names that have been associated with the project, it’s therefore something of a surprise to hear that the role has apparently been awarded to 17-year-old actress Perla Haney-Jardine.
If your reaction to that news is “who?,” you’re most likely not alone. Up until she won this part, the Brazilian-born American actress is best known for playing the four-year-old daughter of Beatrix “The Bride” Kiddo and Bill in 2004’s Kill Bill Vol. 2.
Not exactly bad training for playing the daughter of the often steely tech-ninja Steve Jobs, perhaps!
Steve Jobs famously denied being Lisa’a father for years, despite naming a pre-Macintosh computer after her at Apple. He finally admitted paternity when Lisa was in her teens. She didn’t participate in Walter Isaacson’s gazillion-copy-selling 2011 biography because her father was alive at the time, but agreed to talk with Aaron Sorkin when he was working on the screenplay.
Comparing the upcoming movie to his previous Silicon Valley movie, The Social Network, Sorkin previously told British newspaper The Independent that:
“Both films are much more about the people than the technology they invented. With The Social Network, I was interested in the psychology of the world’s most successful social networking system being invented by the world’s most anti-social guy. And in the case of Steve Jobs, it’s the relationships he had – particularly with his daughter, Lisa – that drew me to it.”
Other actors supposed to appear in the movie include Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, Jeff Daniels as John Sculley, and Kate Winslet.
