FUNNY GIRL

DURING a family holiday when Geraldine Viswanathan was 15 years old, she corralled her parents and younger sister — who’d done the long-haul flight (13-plus hours) from suburban Newcastle to Los Angeles — into standing among the masses who’d turned out for a premiere of Bridesmaids. Her goal? The autographs of her idols: Kristen Wiig and Rose Byrne. Last year, Blockers, the movie in which Viswanathan played a breakout role (and her first-ever Hollywood film) had its premiere at the very same theatre she and her family had once lingered outside.

While landing on the other side of that velvet rope may make for a sweet coincidence, the now 23-year-old’s standing in Hollywood is due