FKA twigs is reportedly in talks to star because the groundbreaking entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker in an upcoming biopic directed by French filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré.
In accordance with Selection, the multi-talented artist is in negotiations to star within the at the moment untitled undertaking, which has notably been endorsed by Josephine Baker’s sons, Jean-Claude Bouillon Baker and Brian Bouillon Baker.
A real pioneer, Baker broke limitations as the primary Black lady to star in a significant movement image with 1927’s Siren of the Tropics. Outdoors of leisure, she aided France’s army intelligence company throughout World Warfare II and was a outstanding civil rights activist within the Fifties.
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It’s additionally price noting that Baker impressed FKA twigs’ search for Met Gala 2025, which centered on the theme of Black dandyism. “There’s area for glory and outrage, and that, I feel, is what being a dandy is all about: Having the boldness to face there and set off and enlighten and confuse and amaze by way of type,” twigs mentioned in an interview with Vogue. “There is no such thing as a diamond that might have outshone the one inside Josephine’s chest.”
twigs final starred in a 2024 remake of The Crow reverse Invoice Skarsgård and is subsequent set to seem in The Carpenter’s Son alongside Nicolas Cage. Her most up-to-date album, Eusexua, was launched in late January. Learn our evaluation and decide up your copy right here.
Doucouré is greatest recognized for her 2020 characteristic debut, Cuties, a movie that garnered each crucial acclaim and controversy for its critique of the hypersexualization of preadolescent ladies.
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