Zendaya to produce, star in thriller on Anita Hemmings, first black woman Vassar grad, passing as white to attend
Shadow And Act
2017-11-14
Zendaya (left) and Anita Hemmings (right).
Zendaya has booked what Deadline calls a hot pitch package on the street right now.
The film is called ‘A White Lie’ and it is a film adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel, The Gilded Years.
The novel, a psychological thriller, “built around the true story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned African American woman. She is the daughter of a janitor, who passed as white so she could attend Vassar at the turn of the century.” She is treated as a wealthy and educated white woman and sparks a romance with a rich Harvard student.
Zendaya will play Hemmings…
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Tags: Anita Hemmings, Deadline, Karin Tanabe, Lauren Neustadter, Monica Beletsky, Reese Witherspoon, Shadow and Act, Zendaya, Zendaya Maree Stoermer ColemanThis entry was posted on Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 at 17:59Z and is filed under Articles, Arts, Biography, Media Archive, Passing, United States. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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