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DREAM Mooresville’s Darby Camp shines in more ways than one by Lori K. Tate | photography by Brant Waldeck
JULY 2018
42 LAKE NORMAN CURRENTS
Darby Camp with her Shih Tzu, Marty McFly. And yes, he’s named after the character in Back to the Future.
ots of kids enjoy theatre and even dream about being on television or in the movies one day. Well, 11-year-old Darby Camp is living the dream. The Mooresville tween recently returned from shooting the second season of HBO’s award winning hit Big Little Lies with Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, who plays Darby’s mom on the show. Last year she starred in Netflix’s remake of Benji and has already filmed a Netflix Christmas movie with Kurt Russell that is slated to come out this Thanksgiving. Those A-list credits might give some kids (and adults) an inflated sense of self, but not Darby. As she sits in her parents’ home office stroking her Shih Tzu, Marty McFly, she’s dressed like any other rising sixth grader — running shorts and a Simply Southern T-shirt. And when the Community School of Davidson student talks about her adventures and experiences on the set, it’s obvious that she knows what’s truly important.