Mary J. Blige to portray Nina Simone in new movie
Mary J. Blige has been drafted to star as Nina Simone in a new movie about the late singer’s life. It will bring to the big screen her rise to fame, her involvement in the civil rights movement and her ex-pat years in France.
Blige is committed to doing justice to the role and has been taking acting lessons to help her portray the tortured genius. She will also re-cut several classic songs for the film.
“Playing a character like her is like playing myself,” Blige says in a recent Rolling Stone excerpt, “because Nina Simone was a manic-depressive, drug addict, alcoholic, cursing wild maniac like I was.”
The movie is scheduled to come out in 2012, so don’t look for Mary J. Blige tickets anytime soon.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 2:58 pm by michelle
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