{"id":63139,"date":"2022-02-20T03:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T03:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63139"},"modified":"2022-02-20T03:27:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T03:27:25","slug":"beyonce-and-zendaya-in-talks-to-team-up-to-remake-the-1959-film-imitation-of-life-with-superstar-singer-as-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63139","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce and Zendaya in talks to team up to remake the 1959 film Imitation Of Life \u2013 with superstar singer as producer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/entertainment\/4712626\/beyonce-zendaya-imitation-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Beyonce and Zendaya in talks to team up to remake the 1959 film Imitation Of Life \u2013 with superstar singer as producer<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sun<\/a><br \/>London, United Kingdom<br \/>2022-02-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimonBoyle87\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Simon Boyle<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Showbiz Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/entertainment\/4712626\/beyonce-zendaya-imitation-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/COMPS-DD-BIZARREv2.jpg?w=1980\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THEY are two of the most in-demand people in showbiz and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beyonc%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyonce<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zendaya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zendaya<\/a> are now in talks to team up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hear both have had early discussions about creating a remake of movie classic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imitation_of_Life_(1959_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Imitation Of Life<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imitation_of_Life_(1934_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1934 film<\/a>, remade in 1959 starring <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lana_Turner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lana Turner<\/a>, grapples with questions of race, class and gender as an aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter longs to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pass as white<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/entertainment\/4712626\/beyonce-zendaya-imitation-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEY are two of the most in-demand people in showbiz and Beyonce and Zendaya are now in talks to team up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,6462,20],"tags":[21939,22943,31996,33050,29154,27225,27648],"class_list":["post-63139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-beyonce","tag-beyonce-giselle-knowles-carter","tag-fanny-hurst","tag-simon-boyle","tag-the-sun","tag-zendaya","tag-zendaya-maree-stoermer-coleman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63139","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=63139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63140,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63139\/revisions\/63140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}