Interstellar Star Mackenzie Foy to Lead Disney’s Nutcracker According to Variety, 15-year-old model/actress Mackenzie Foy (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Interstellar) will play the lead role in Walt Disney Pictures‘ new live-action version of “The Nutcracker.” Foy will join American Ballet Theatre dancer Misty Copeland, who takes the lead ballerina role for the dance sequences. Lasse Hallstrom (The Hundred-Foot Journey, The Cider House Rules, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) is onboard to direct the revisionist take under the title The Nutcracker and the Four Realms from a script by Ashleigh Powell. Most famously adapted as a ballet by Tchaikovsky in the late 19th century, the tale originated as a short story titled “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by E.T.A.