At least, that’s a suggestion made by producer Lili Zanuck (who, along with producing partner, the late ace Richard Zanuck, first approached Queen Latifah with the Bessie Smith project, when she was just 22, because they truly felt that she was the only person who could fully embody Bessie).
Zanuck is featured in an extensive profile of Queen Latifah published in Variety today, in which the magazine traces the Queen’s professional career (with a little bit of the personal), through the present, and beyond. Towards the end of the piece, which summarizes what’s next for Latifah, including producing 2 new unscripted series for Centric TV (“From the Bottom Up,” which premieres Dec. 5, and…
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