FKA twigs to Play Josephine Baker in Upcoming Biopic

FKA twigs is reportedly in talks to star because the groundbreaking entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker in an upcoming biopic directed by French filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré.

In line with Selection, the multi-talented artist is in negotiations to star within the at present untitled mission, which has notably been endorsed by Josephine Baker’s sons, Jean-Claude Bouillon Baker and Brian Bouillon Baker.

A real pioneer, Baker broke obstacles as the primary Black lady to star in a significant movement image with 1927’s Siren of the Tropics. Outdoors of leisure, she aided France’s army intelligence company throughout World Warfare II and was a distinguished civil rights activist within the Nineteen Fifties.

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It’s additionally price noting that Baker impressed FKA twigs’ search for Met Gala 2025, which centered on the theme of Black dandyism. “There’s area for glory and outrage, and that, I believe, is what being a dandy is all about: Having the arrogance to face there and set off and enlighten and confuse and amaze by means of model,” twigs mentioned in an interview with Vogue. “There is no such thing as a diamond that might have outshone the one inside Josephine’s chest.”

twigs final starred in a 2024 remake of The Crow reverse Invoice Skarsgård and is subsequent set to seem in The Carpenter’s Son alongside Nicolas Cage. Her most up-to-date album, Eusexua, was launched in late January. Learn our assessment and choose up your copy right here.

Doucouré is finest recognized for her 2020 characteristic debut, Cuties, a movie that garnered each important acclaim and controversy for its critique of the hypersexualization of preadolescent ladies.