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No./ 2 Nia DaCosta is going higher, further, faster

NIA DACOSTA WAS 16 years old when she first saw Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War epic . As the film started, she wanted to be a writer. But by the time it ended, her life — and path — had changed. “It was just so crazy, and had so muchcoming out on October 15, and the keys to a billion-dollar superhero franchise reportedly next up, it is a fairly stratospheric rise.

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