Joey King

ACTOR

King thought “The Kissing Booth” was special from the start. “My reps and everyone were like, ‘Yeah, it’s cute.’ But I really believed in it,” she says. After the Netflix smash debuted, fans eagerly sought her out on Instagram, increasing her following from 600,000 to 6.5 million. She says that making a sequel is “definitely not out of the question for us.” While she hopes to eventually star in a musical movie a la “The Greatest Showman,” King has horror pic “Slender Man” in release currently, plus SXSW stunner “Summer ’03” and Blumhouse’s “Between the Earth and Sky” on her docket. She is set to begin shooting “The Bayou” with Gary Oldman and Dylan O’brien soon. But what most excites King is producing and starring in “The In Between,” a love story she pitched to Paramount Players. “I literally can’t even get a complete sentence out because I’m so happy,” she says.