Jessica Zack February 24, 2021Updated: March 18, 2021, 10:48 am
Andra Day as jazz singer Billie Holiday in a courtroom scene from the movie “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.” Photo: Takashi Seida, Hulu
When Billie Holiday was arrested in January 1949 at San Francisco’s Mark Twain Hotel after federal agents planted opium in her room, the U.S. government had already been harassing her for a full decade. As the re-created scene unfolds in the new movie “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” with Holiday played by Andra Day, the latest Hulu original makes it painfully clear that the legendary jazz singer stood little chance of staying out of the headlines when she arrived in the Bay Area to play a four-week run at Joe Tenner’s Café Society Uptown in the Fillmore.
Charlize Theron joins cast of ‘The School for Good and Evil’
South African-born actress Charlize Theron will star alongside Kerry Washington in the Netflix movie ‘The School for Good and Evil’
The 45-year-old actress and fellow star Kerry Washington have both boarded the Paul Feig-helmed Netflix movie
The School for Good and Evil, which is based on Soman Chainani’s best-selling novel of the same name.
Feig made the announcement in a Twitter post, which read: “I know what school I’m applying to! So thrilled to welcome Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington to the School for Good and Evil! Everyone, prepare to get schooled! @CharlizeAfrica @kerrywashington @netflix @NetflixFilm (sic)”
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22 Feb 2021 : Nathan Griffin Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron. Theron and Washington will join Bridesmaids director Paul Feig to film the Netflix original film, which is due to begin filming at Belfast Harbour Studios later this year.
“I am so thrilled to have Charlize and Kerry in this film,” said Director Paul Feig when discussing the news.
“I was honoured to work with Charlize back on Arrested Development and have been dying to work with her again ever since. And I’ve been such a massive fan of Kerry’s forever, and to finally find something for us to do together is just more proof that 2021 is going to be way, way better than 2020.”
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