{"id":55163,"date":"2017-11-15T17:43:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55163"},"modified":"2017-11-15T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:54:49","slug":"zendaya-to-star-in-a-white-lie-pitch-package-from-reese-witherspoons-hello-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55163","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya To Star In \u2018A White Lie,\u2019 Pitch Package From Reese Witherspoon\u2019s Hello Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zendaya To Star In \u2018A White Lie,\u2019 Pitch Package From Reese Witherspoon\u2019s Hello Sunshine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a>
\n2017-11-13<\/p>\n

Mike Fleming Jr<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nREX\/Shutterstock<\/small><\/p>\n

The hot pitch package on the street is A White Lie<\/em>, an adaptation of the Karin Tanabe<\/a> novel The Gilded Years<\/em><\/a>. The book is a psychological thriller<\/a> built around the true story of Anita Hemmings<\/a>, a light-skinned African-American woman. The daughter of a janitor, she passed as white<\/a> so she could attend Vassar at the turn of the 20th century. Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em><\/a> star co-star Zendaya<\/a> will play Hemmings. Monica Beletsky<\/a> is writing the script, and Hello Sunshine\u2019s<\/a> Witherspoon<\/a> and Lauren Neustadter<\/a> are producing along with Zendaya…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hot pitch package on the street is “A White Lie,” an adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel “The Gilded Years.” The book is a psychological thriller built around the true story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned African-American woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,8,6462,20],"tags":[22218,27644,22219,27646,18370,27645,27647,27225,27648],"class_list":["post-55163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-anita-hemmings","tag-deadline","tag-karin-tanabe","tag-lauren-neustadter","tag-mike-fleming-jr","tag-monica-beletsky","tag-reese-witherspoon","tag-zendaya","tag-zendaya-maree-stoermer-coleman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55167,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55163\/revisions\/55167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}