Zendaya to produce, star in thriller on Anita Hemmings, first black woman Vassar grad, passing as white to attend |
Shadow And Act
2017-11-14
Zendaya (left) and Anita Hemmings (right).
Zendaya has booked what Deadline calls a hot pitch package on the street right now.
The film is called ‘A White Lie’ and it is a film adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel, The Gilded Years.
The novel, a psychological thriller, “built around the true story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned African American woman. She is the daughter of a janitor, who passed as white so she could attend Vassar at the turn of the century.” She is treated as a wealthy and educated white woman and sparks a romance with a rich Harvard student.
Zendaya will play Hemmings…
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