According to stories making their way in the media, Rita Marley is apparently desperate for singer Lauryn Hill to portray her on screen in the first-ever biopic of her late husband, reggae icon Bob Marley.
Marley is working as executive producer on the big-screen adaptation of her 2004 autobiography No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley--and has her sights set on casting the former Fugees frontwoman, her daughter-in-law, in the chronicle of her tumultuous 15-year marriage to the musician.
She explains, "Lauryn would be ideal (to play me). She sees my life as her life."
Bob Marley's son Rohan--with former lover Janet Hunt--is married to the "Everything Is Everything" hitmaker, who has been largely absent from the music scene following her hit 1998 debut solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
The as-yet-untitled project is slated to begin filming early next year.
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lets give her a break and see what she does with this. she's been dealt one helava bad hand till now, most of it because of her own doing, but i think we all know she is fully capable of locking this one down. The question is will she fall pregnant during or before the shoot date? (oh, Ed. that's not the question) Okay, we'll have to wait and see.
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