The Star Of Mira Nair's New Film Visited "Today" In New York Just This Morning...

And be sure to check out her interview with The Wall Street Journal - an excerpt and link are provided below. AMELIA opens October 23rd.

WSJ: "Taking a Flier on Amelia Earhart"

Given all of your research preparing to play Amelia, what do you think happened to her during that final flight?"

"For sure, she ran out of gas. Learning how to fly, if you know what the weather is, you learn to calculate how to figure out the actual speed of a plane, which is tied to figuring out your location. Because she didn't have a clear connection with anyone up in the plane, giving her weather updates, I don't think she had a good understanding of how much headwind she was encountering. I think that she was probably a couple hundred miles off of Howland Island."