♪ go home alone ♪ ♪ go home alone ♪ >> this is nightline. >> with the first pick in the 2023 nfl draft. >> tonight. >> the carolina panthers select bryce young. >> the joy, the tears, and the celebrations. we're in kansas city as lives are changed forever. meet the super agent changing the game. >> nichole lind is really a rock star. she is shattering the glass ceiling. >> and the mic drop moment from a young fan. >> the new york jets,

jets, jets, select will mcdonald. let's go. yeah. >> plus, are yo there, god? it's me, margaret. the classic coming of able story by celebrative author judy bloom final hitting the big screen. >> maybe i love the movie more than i love the book. >> rachel mcadams generating all sorts of buzz. >> how's that feel? >> i cannot wait to take it off. >> yeah. welcome to womanhood. >> why the book still resonates with readers of all ables. and the hunger games, the ballad of song birds and snakes. >> it's not just about winning. >> everything is about winning. >> the new trailer for the prequel to the blockbuster franchise that has fans hungry for more. nightline will be right back.

>> thanks for joining us. tonight, dreams are coming true on stage before millions at the nfl draft in kansas city. and insidessest of it all, the woman shattering the glass ceiling, caring a new role in the once all-male bastion of nfl agent. here's abc's will reeve. >> it's the biggest event of the nfl off-season. >> welcome to kansas city and

the 2023 nfl draft. >> kansas city, i think we can do a little bit better than that. [cheers and applause] iro to givegeooals stve cng in t om >>o the families i'm aos fords threeay c mi ofthe annual ritual, includi3 year old kyle stickals through the make a wish foundation he got to nouns a first round pick. >> the new york j-e-t-s, jets, jets, jets, select will mcdonald, linebacker, iowa state. let's go. yeah. >> this is a really, really big night. the nfl draft is truly one of the television spectacles of the year in sports. a name is called and that young man is an instant mill. we, especially if he's taken in

the first couple of rounds, his life is changed forever. >> their whole lives have kind of built to this moment. than credible accomplishmentment to get drafted when they're and friends. >> with the first pick in the 2023 nfl draft, the carolina panthers sella quarterback and 2021 heisman trophy winner bryce young headlining this year's class. >> steps back, in the end zone. touchdown, alabama. >> espn sat down with him as he was preparing for the draft. >> my hero's definitely my father. he's been a' role model to me in every single aspect of my life. >> young's parents beaming. >> we're so blessed for bryce to share this journey with us and to be his parents. >> the first round not without some drama. >> the philadelphia eagles select jalyn carter, defensive

tackle, georgia. >> 22 year old jalyn carter, the georgia defensive tackle, visibly emotional after being drafted nineth by the philadelphia eagles following months of off field controversy. >> a stunning term for one of the most celebrated college football players in america. >> carter was sentenced to 12 months probation after being involved in a january drag racing accident that killed one of his teammate and a team staffer. >> i just want to thank god, thank my mom, thank my family for being out here and supporting me. it's time to work. he's got the best player in the draft, i'm pretty sure. >> teams want to win and while talent on the field of a play is still paramount, the character of these players, how they're going to work in the community and mesh with the team, that becomes more important especially as social media becomes more important and as we know so much more about these players. >> one of the night's most anticipated picks. >> the houston texans select will anderson junior.

>> will anderson junior, the star alabama linebacker. at 6-4 and 243 poundses, anderson credits his success to his family, especially his five oler sisters. >> they had a great impack on my life. they did a tremendous job of being or i would say having five moms in the house. one minute they want to baby me and the next they want to boss you around. >> his family there to cheer him on last night. >> we are so excited. where they weren't just getting, they was getting an entire family. >> it's just really a full circle moment for us. we're so proud of will because he's worked so hard and we worked so hard supporting him. we are so happy for him. >> they're joined by another powerful woman i will's corner, super agent nichole lind. >> nichole lind is really a rock star. he is the gold standard. she's a breath of fresh air, she's smart, she's good, she learned the business working her way up.

>> this year 34 year old lind made history as the first female black agent to represent a starting quarterback in the super bowl, jalyn hertz, later negotiating a massive contract for hurt, paying him $255 million over 5 years. >> it means the world not only to set a precedent for what could be done, but, um, to acknowledge that when we women can do it too. she pretty, she pretty lit for doing that. >> it was their shared struggle that attracted her to lind and won him over. the athlete telling sport illustrated about their first meeting. she said i'm a woman, people are going to overlook me, people are going going to doubt me. they're not going to give me the due respect but i'm overcoming it just like you do and that where we really hit it off. we had the same vision. it's a vision that for the super agent started at a young able as she described at the hustle's key note event in 2018. >> these athletes came from a very similar background that i

came from. they grew up with rags and then they go drafted in the nfl and turn into riches. unfortunately they go back to rags. and that's so much bothered me. this is my community of people. thee are the people that come from where i come from so i need to figure out a way to help them. >> her career in sports starred with her own personal hale mary. >> i i was year years ole, i was on wall street, i went into my bought's office and quit. i said i need to walk in purpose. >> lind says one o her inspirations was the film jerry mcguire about a fissional sport agent with a heart. >> what are you going to do, jerry? >> show me the money. >> congratulations, you're still my agent. >> when you're talking about the oldest of the old boys clubs you're talking about the national football league and for women to break in, in any capacity, has been difficult. for her to breakthrough at a

relatively young age, work her way up, do all the homework, do all the right things, learn the business, and then breakthrough on her own, it's remarkable. >> lind not lean reps players, but other trailblazers in the nfl, like washington commanders assistant coach jennifer king, the first black woman to be a full-time nfl coach. >> we actually connected a the combine. it was like a conversation with someone that i had known for a while and it was just really comfortable. she wasn't pressuring me in any way. it really wasn't about things she can do. just things i wanted to do. i'm definitely with her wherever she goes. >> lind isn't going anywhere other than to greater heights announcing her pregnancy just days ago on instagram, and writing a book, agent u, to mentor others, a goal she lives by as she shared with the nfl network. >> i want to mentor every purse than i can but it's impossible so i try to use my social media as a platform to mentor

thousands at a time. i am trying to open doors and give exposure to a job that usually was just for white men and nobody knew how to get in. i'm not going to allow those barriers of entry to still be up. instead, i'm going to give you the key to the door. whether you walk in and unlock it, that on you. >> back in kansas city lind will be watching as more of her client wait to hear their names called while teams hope to find that diamond in the rough like tom brady arguably the greatest of all time selected 199th in the draft more than two decades ago. >> as you watch saturday unfold, that what to keep an eye out for. guys that may not be as harolded as the guys that went thursday night or even friday night but could end up being just as important or more soment. >> thanks will. up next the classic coming of age novel, are you there, god? it's me margaret hitting the big screen.

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♪ ♪ >> are you there, god? it's me, margaret. it's a right of passage for betweens, for decades. noun, at long last, a movie. starring rachel mcadams and cathy bait, why the beloved author judy blume is speaking out about book bans. >> are you there, god? it's me, margaret.

>> wildly popular among tweens since its release in 1970, judy blume's third book has finally de it to the big t movie. i maybe i love the movie more than i love the book because it's everything that the book is and yet it's opened it up in a new way. >> you still get all the nostalgic feels. >> i'm here to speak to you today about your changing bodies. >> it's the coming of age story of sixth grader margaret simon who's navigating daunting physical and adogistments that come along with puberty. >> it get tiring. >> from boys to getting her first period to being fitted for a bra. >> barely a 28. not even a double a. >> generations of girls brought this book to sleepovers, and ran

straight to the judy blume table at school book fairs. its popularity enduring. >> okay. all right. can i see? >> rachel mcadams, best known for her roles in mean girls the notebook and wedding crashes plays margaret mom. >> i heard about margaret when i was quite young and heard that it was racy. there was boobs and -- >> she plays the mother that i want to come back in my next life and be the way rachel plays margaret's mother. >> how does that feel? >> i cannot wait to take it off. >> yeah. welcome to womanhood. >> margaret portrayed by abbey rider fordson was 13 when the film was shot. >> be normal and regular like everybody else. please, please, please. >> i was going through everything margaret was going through and more. um, there's awkward moments, there's fun moments. but i feel like margaret really captures that, all of the sucky

stuff as well as the fun booby dancing moments [laughter] >> do you think any of us will look like that when we're 19? >> we must, we must, we must increase our bust. >> academy award winner cathy bait stepped into the role of market are's fabulous and doting grandmother, sylvia. >> are you okay? you can tell me the truth. >> kathy bates is a beautiful, full character. she's a grandmother, sexy as all get out, and -- >> she's a glamma. >> i heard that today. i love that. glamma, yes. >> how are you? >> i read when you don't have any loved ones around your life expectancy drops drastically but you know i've had a good run. >> are you there, god, it's me, margaret is 1 of more than 30 books judy blume has written. her books have sold more than 90 million copies and are translated into 32 languages. >> i mean, i was margaret.

i wanted to write hot i knew to be an honest and truthful book about sixth grade. >> blume now lives between new york and quiet key west florida where she has call home for nearly the past 30 years. her books line the shelfs of the non-profit bookstore, books and books, that she owns with her husband. and blume's husband funded the local cinema right next to the book store. >> i never dreamed that an adaptation of one of my books could be so perfect. >> soon after it hit the shelves in 1970, blume had her first experience wb sensorship as an author. >> when you wrote this book in 1970, you gave some copies to the, your children's school but it never got to the shelves. >> yeah. >> why? >> yeah. because the male principal in 1970 felt that girls in

elementary school, and that school went through sixth grade, shouldn't be able to read about menstruation or breast development. never mind how many kids in school already had their periods. you know, he made that decision. >> the feaster debate -- the fierce debate is back, fyfe deeing ate later. florida, her state, is in the cross hairs of a nationwide clash. judy blume's books forever with stories about sex and then again maybe i won't, which broaches masturbation, are on list of banned and challenged books. according to pen america, a free speech advocacy group, florida removed several hundred books from schools in the 2022 school year. governor ron de santis signed the lop requiring teachers to remove books not on the state-approve reading list, some due to sexually explicit content. >> parents, when they're sending their kids to school, they should not have to worry about this garbage being in the

schools. >> here we are, in florida, where you now live. and you see that's not only are your books censored but in the list of books that are censored is growing exponentially. >> challenged, yes. the books that are under challenge. >> does that concern you? >> it concerns me so much that feel that every chance i have now to speak out about it, i mustal. >> you've alsos that you're very concerned for the books that have not been written yet. >> you can't wrote with a censor on your shoulder, you know? you have to find a way to kick it off. >> blume rejected previous offers to turn this book into a movie but something about director kelly freedman craig struck a cord. >> what was different this time was that kelly came with incredible credentials. she had already written and directed a movie called the edge of 17, which i had seen. i already remembered how much i

liked it so i was excited right away. >> i really was just four might heart out and telling her how much her work had meant to me, you know? both growing up and then also as somebody who became a writer and filmmaker. judy blume is the author who has most impacted me, hands down. i started to re-read her work and when i got to are you there god it's me margaret, i just, i just was so knocked flat. >> a lot has changed since the book first came out, but this coming of age story still resonates with many. >> so you're taking a lot of different generation boxes there and they're all full female characters, fully, fully played out, and krafted. i love that about this movie, that alone. >> i think of it as a very much a girl's night out. you know, all the women friends and the sissers who grew up reading it, it's your night. go out and have a good time. >> one day when you do grow, it

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♪ ♪ >> and finally tonight, back to the beginning. first look at the highly anticipated prequel to the

hunger games. >> 3, 2, run. >> eager fans screening the trailer for the hunger games the ballad of song birds and snakes, more than 5 million times in less than 24 hours. the film stars tom blythe as a yung president snow. west side story star rachel ziegler as his meantee and oscar winner viola davis as the villain. it takes 60 years before the blockbuster movie that starred jennifer lawrence as catness everdean. it opens in november. get your popcorn ready that nightline. you can watch all of our full episodes on hulu. we'll