Meet Hilde Lysiak, a 9-year-old journalist who broke the news of a murder


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In Home Before Dark, Brookylnn Prince stars as Hilde Lysiak, the precocious journalist who was nine when she broke the news of a murder in a small American town. Photo: Apple TV+

Director Jon M. Chu will forever be associated with the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018), but his latest project, Home Before Dark, is a bit different: a true-crime drama about a girl who defies expectations to become an investigative journalist.

In an interview, he said he wanted to make the show because of a "visceral" fear that his own daughter may someday face the same sexism as the character.

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