From Variety
Grammy-nominated artist FKA Twigs is in negotiations to star as Josephine Baker, the pioneering American-born French dancer, singer and actor, in a biopic which will be directed by Maimouna Doucouré, the filmmaker behind “Cuties.”
Studiocanal is financing and co-producing the film, as well as handling international sales. Doucouré’s banner Bien ou Bien Prods is producing with Studiocanal, alongside with CPB Films. The biopic has also been endorsed by Josephine Baker’s sons, Jean-Claude Bouillon Baker and Brian Bouillon Baker, and the Rainbow Tribe, which is what she dubbed her many adopted children.
Baker, a trailblazing entertainer and civil rights activist, became the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture (“Siren of the Tropics”) in 1927.
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