Unplanned

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Four days before filming was to begin on "Unplanned," its two producers did not have their lead to play the part of Abby Johnson. Delays are expensive when this kind of movie costs about $20,000/hour to make.

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Then the decision was made, Ashley Bratcher would be Abby in this film. Ashley had been filming four days when she talked to her mother on the phone and received some astonishing news: Ashley herself had very nearly been aborted.

Her father had pawned a shotgun to pay for the abortion, he and her mom went to the clinic to get it done . . and then her mom couldn't go through with it. She kept the baby, and named her daughter Ashley. 

“To know you almost didn’t exist is an incredible thing to hear,” says Bratcher in an interview. “I was just seconds away from not existing."