Taking to the ice! Caitlin Carver set to play Nancy Kerrigan in biopic about disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding
The movie has already started filming even though it was missing a key member of the cast.
Biopic I, Tonya, about disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, has found its Nancy Kerrigan.
Caitlin Carver, best known for appearing on The Fosters, will play the skater who was Tonya's bitter on-ice rival in the 1980s and 90s.
Nice ice baby: Caitlin Carver, 24, has been cast as figure skating champion Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding's bitter on-ice rival in the 1980s and 90s
The 24-year-old actress will co-star opposite Margot Robbie as Tonya.
Filming recently kicked off in Atlanta, Georgia.
Margot plays the two-time Olympian who felt threatened by Nancy, a rising star, and plotted an attack to keep her out of competition.
The real thing: Nancy competing in 1994, after recovering from an attack carried out by Tonya's husband designed to keep her out of the Lillehammer Winter Olympics
Cameras rolling: Margot Robbie, who plays Tonya, is already filming in Atlanta, Georgia
The movie follows Tonya and then husband Jeff Gillooly, played by Sebastian Stan, who secretly hired a thug to break rival Kerrigan's leg to force her out of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in Norway.
However, the attack, which happened after a practice session for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, was botched and Nancy was badly bruised but not broken.
Despite her injuries she went on to compete, winning a silver medal with Tonya coming eighth.
Skater girl: Tonya finished eighth in figure skating at the Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games while Nancy, who had recovered from the attack, received the silver medal
Night out: Margot, who stars as disgraced skater Tonya Harding, at the IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street in New York on November 28
When details of the crime - known as The Whack Heard Round The World because Nancy's knee was clubbed with a baton - came to light, Tonya was banned from the skating competition for life.
In court, she pleaded guilty to obstructing prosecutors in their investigation into the incident and received three years probation, community service and a $160,000 fine. Gillooly got a two-year prison sentence.
The biopic is due for release next year.
Making a scene: Caitlin is best known for playing Maria in NBC series Timeless
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