Singer Andra Day To Play Billie Holiday In Biopic (Update: Trailer Inside)

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http://www.playbill.com/article/and...biopic-featuring-a-script-by-suzan-lori-parks

Oscar-nominated writer, director, and producer Lee Daniels (Empire, Star, Precious, Lee Daniels' The Butler) is in talks to direct the Billie Holiday biopic Billie, according to Variety. The film will feature a script by Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (Father Comes Home From the Wars), with “Rise Up” singer-songwriter Andra Day reportedly tapped to star as the iconic singer.

Atlanta's Lakeith Stanfield is also set to star in the film.

Billie follows in the fofotsteps of the 1972 film detailing Lady Day's life, Lady Sings the Blues (starring Diana Ross), as well as the 1986 play by Lanie Robertson (for which Audra McDonald won her sixth Tony Award in 2014).

Billie will be produced by Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum and has yet to sign a deal with a studio.

 

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[Flex Grossman]

Andra day is dope. Don’t know if she can act but she can sing

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

Lee Daniels’ The United States Vs. Billie Holiday Offered At Virtual Cannes By Sierra/Affinity – Deadline

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

 

[Flex Grossman]

Came is to say how dope Andra Day is, not realizing I already did that 2 and a half years ago lmao

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

 

[OmegaK2099]

It was actually Bioshock that really got me into billie holiday, this tune right here tho

 

[LevelUp]

@Dr. Narcisse props on the trailer.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

soon as i saw "lee daniels"

i knew i had to keep my spidey senses on,

so he slides in a shot of billie holiday kissing a white woman

what proof does he have that billie holiday was a bi-sexual woman

i have read quite a bit on billie holiday and never saw she had any interest in women.

past that it looks like they are going to be honest about what happened with billie holiday

but again this lee daniels, so i dont know how much to trust this.

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

The Trailer brought me in. Can't wait.

Didn't know how complex Billie Holliday's life was.

 

[valet]

soon as i saw "lee daniels"

i knew i had to keep my spidey senses on,

so he slides in a shot of billie holiday kissing a white woman

what proof does he have that billie holiday was a bi-sexual woman

i have read quite a bit on billie holiday and never saw she had any interest in women.

past that it looks like they are going to be honest about what happened with billie holiday

but again this lee daniels, so i dont know how much to trust this.

Billie Holiday - Gender and Sexuality Student Services - UIS

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Billie Holiday - Gender and Sexuality Student Services - UIS

Thanks for the link

I would like to know how they came to that conclusion who did they interview etc.

Alot of people these days are going back in hindsight and trying to make a lot of prominent figures homosexual when they were not
But I won't fight this one too much I just watched several documentaries and read some works on her and never heard that mentioned. If she was it doesn't change what she sacrificed by performing strange fruit. I'm just skeptical put it that way. But again props on the drop.

 

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[Bickin Back Being Bool]

gonna watch it tonight