Teyana Taylor Says She's Working on a Dionne Warwick Biopic
Teyana Taylor is ready for an iconic biopic.
As first reported by Billboard, the 32-year-old actress, singer, and dancer confirmed that she is planning to play legendary singer Dionne Warwick in a forthcoming biopic. The “Morning” singer has always looked the part, but she says she wanted to wait until she was able to dive fully into the character.
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“We’re already working on it, we’re in the building process right now,” Taylor told interviewer Tamron Hall, in a new clip from the Tamron Hall Show shared exclusively with Billboard. “I always wanted to make sure I could lock in with any person that I would be playing.”
As part of the process of learning about Warwick, Taylor is working directly with the 82-year-old icon, who she says she talks to everyday. “I’ve always been a firm believer and stood on safety,” Taylor said of the collaboration. “She’s had a wonderful career, and I think right now is about making her feel as safe as possible to tell her story because a lot of these stories get misconstrued or dramatized to an extent. That’s not really where we want to go.”
The upcoming role comes at a fitting time for Taylor, who is recently earning critical acclaim for her most high profile role yet, as Inez in A Thousand and One — which premiered (and won the Grand Jury Prize) in January at the Sundance Film Festival. “Inez is just something that I felt and I knew that I had a point to prove,” Taylor told Entertainment Weekly of that role.
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