Several years ago word got out about a forthcoming biopic on the late Aaliyah, and while it's been five years since the initial buzz hit about the film, Keshia Chante still seems to be attached to the potential Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) helmed flick. In a recent interview with Chris Yandek at CYInterview.com, the Canadian songstress who shockingly resembles Aaliyah opened up about the progress of the film.
"And from my understanding, there are people trying to create a movie and Aaliyah’s family are still mourning her loss and aren’t ready to share her story and create a film. So there’s a bit of back and forth thing with her family and with creative people. And I know that they would bless a movie being created, they’re just not 100 percent comfortable and unfortunately from my understanding they don’t have complete control of her estate. So a movie could technically be made without them green lighting it and I kind of think that’s unfortunate. So I want her family to be on board and to be happy with it. It’s still kind of lingering in the air."Keshia Chante goes into further detail about the potential biopic.
"And for me, I’ve always wanted to kind of talk about it, it’s just really, it’s uncomfortable. I don’t want to disrespect her family. I know that they’re, they don’t like it. They don’t like when they get calls from people, like, ‘Oh, I heard this about your daughter. I heard this.’ Because it’s painful for them. So I know that the lawyer and even them and even my team who have kind of like you know, it’s happy, it’s better for everyone to not really speak on it and I’m just feel like you know, I’m not supposed to speak on it, but I know in this situation, yeah, it’ kind of, it’s a long time coming and I know people really want to know what’s going on. So yeah, I definitely think this was the perfect time to tell you."
For more of the interview click here.
No matter what, we miss Aaliyah so much. Her life was cut too short. She was a promisin R&B singer. r.i.p. Aaliyah
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