{"id":55799,"date":"2018-02-22T04:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T04:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55799"},"modified":"2018-02-22T04:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T04:49:32","slug":"lupita-nyongo-to-star-in-born-a-crime-based-on-trevor-noahs-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55799","title":{"rendered":"Lupita Nyong\u2019o To Star In \u2018Born A Crime\u2019 Based On Trevor Noah\u2019s Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lupita Nyong\u2019o To Star In \u2018Born A Crime\u2019 Based On Trevor Noah\u2019s Memoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Deadline Hollywood<\/a>
\n2018-02-21<\/p>\n

Amanda N’Duka<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/a>, currently starring as Nakia in Disney\/Marvel\u2019s record-smashing, watershed hit Black Panther<\/em><\/a>, has signed on to star in Born a Crime<\/em>, the film adaptation of The Daily Show<\/em><\/a> host Trevor Noah\u2019s<\/a> bestselling debut autobiography Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nyong\u2019o will play Noah\u2019s mom, Patricia, who served as an important figure to her son in his formative years. She was shot in the head by his stepfather while returning from a church service in 2009, but survived.<\/p>\n

Noah is producing the project through his Ark Angel Productions alongside Norman Aladjem<\/a>, Derek Van Pelt<\/a> and Sanaz Yamin<\/a> of Mainstay Entertainment, and Nyong\u2019o…<\/p>\n

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

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Lupita Nyong\u2019o, currently starring as Nakia in Disney\/Marvel\u2019s record-smashing, watershed hit Black Panther, has signed on to star in Born a Crime, the film adaptation of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah\u2019s bestselling debut autobiography “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,24,395,8,520],"tags":[28086,18369,28084,23080,28083,28085,15219],"class_list":["post-55799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-south-africa","tag-amanda-nduka","tag-deadline-hollywood","tag-derek-van-pelt","tag-lupita-nyongo","tag-norman-aladjem","tag-sanaz-yamin","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55799","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=55799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55801,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55799\/revisions\/55801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}