Indeed, Elsie Fisher, the 13 year old (at time of filming in July 2017) who plays the central character Kayla Day in Eighth Grade, was a Burnham follower. She even told him that the kids in the ...

The film is set in the waning days of junior high — the threat of high school is there, but still months away. At her eighth grade class’s final assembly, Kayla (Elsie Fisher) is voted “most shy” in ...

Thirteen-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher ... the last week of middle school – the end of her thus far disastrous eighth-grade year. Being 13 is brutal. The painful truth of it is something rarely ...