{"id":128598,"date":"2022-05-05T01:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T01:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/janelle-monae-set-to-play-josephine-baker-in-de-la-resistance-tv-series\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T01:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T01:25:23","slug":"janelle-monae-set-to-play-josephine-baker-in-de-la-resistance-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/janelle-monae-set-to-play-josephine-baker-in-de-la-resistance-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Janelle Mon\u00e1e Set to Play Josephine Baker in \u2018De La Resistance\u2019 TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Deadline has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/05\/janelle-monae-josephine-baker-tv-series-a24-1235015964\/\" rel=\"noopener\">learned<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/janelle-monae\" rel=\"noopener\">Janelle Mon\u00e1e<\/a> will play Josephine Baker in the upcoming TV series\u00a0<em>De La Resistance<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The series, which will be based on the upcoming Damien Lewis <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Agent-Josephine-American-Beauty-British\/dp\/154170066X\" rel=\"noopener\">book<\/a>\u00a0<em>Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy<\/em>,\u00a0is said to focus on Baker\u2019s accomplishments as an entertainer, which include being the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture\u00a0in the 1927 silent film\u00a0<em>Siren Of The Tropics<\/em>. The year prior, her popularity catapulted when\u00a0she performed a dance known as\u00a0the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/josephine-baker-90th-anniversary-banana-skirt\" rel=\"noopener\">danse\u00a0sauvage<\/a> in nothing but\u00a0pearl necklaces and a short skirt\u00a0of\u00a0bananas during the musical\u00a0<em>La Revue N\u00e8gre<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will also reportedly explore her role as a spy for the\u00a0French Intelligence during World War II. Baker managed to gather intel on the Axis powers through her reputation as an entertainer. She later contributed as a\u00a0civil rights activist in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The series is being produced by\u00a0Mon\u00e1e\u2019s production house Wondaland\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/a24\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">A24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will not be Mon\u00e1e\u2019s first time portraying a historical figure. The multi-hyphenate starred as\u00a0NASA\u2019s first Black\u00a0female engineer\u00a0Mary Jackson in the Oscar-nominated film <em>Hidden Figures<\/em>.\u00a0Mon\u00e1e most recently published a book titled <em>The Memory Librarian<\/em>, which served as a collection of stories from their 2018 album <em>Dirty Computer<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\" \/>\n<p><em>The Memory Librarian<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistqueen.com\/the-new-york-times-fiction-best-sellers\/\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared<\/a> on the <em>New York Times<\/em> best sellers list last week.\u00a0Mon\u00e1e will also appear in Rian Johnson\u2019s\u00a0long-awaited follow-up to <em>Knives Out<\/em>, which is slated to be released on Netflix later this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>De La Resistance\u00a0<\/em>is reportedly involved in a bidding war between multiple streaming services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/pop-culture\/janelle-monae-josephine-baker-de-la-resistance-tv-series\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline has learned Janelle Mon\u00e1e will play Josephine Baker in the upcoming TV series\u00a0De La Resistance.\u00a0 The series, which will be based on the upcoming Damien Lewis book\u00a0Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy,\u00a0is said to focus on Baker\u2019s accomplishments as an entertainer, which include being the first Black woman to star in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1278,119,243,2474,5,916,1120,7,8,93,644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a24","category-dfp-entertainment","category-dfp-entertainment-tv","category-drama","category-featured","category-history","category-janelle-monae","category-music","category-news","category-tier-one","category-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128600,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128598\/revisions\/128600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}