Austin Butler Lands Male Lead on The Carrie Diaries
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The Carrie Diaries has found its Mr. Big.
Deadline reports that Austin Butler (Life Unexpected, Switched at Birth) has been cast on The CW pilot as Sebastian Kydd, a brooding heartthrob at Carrie Bradshaw's high school who will play a key role on this Sex and the City prequel.
The Carrie Diaries is based on a Candace Bushnell novel by the same name and will star AnnaSophia Robb as the character Sarah Jessica Parker made famous. It will follow her life in the 1980s as a teenager in NYC.
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