Selena Gomez cast as folk rock trailblazer Linda Ronstadt in new biopic

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Selena Gomez will star as folk rock trailblazer Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic.

The former Disney Channel actor and singer, 31, teased the casting announcement on her Instagram Story on Tuesday (9 January) with a photograph of her studying Ronstadt’s 2013 memoir, Simple Dreams.

The untitled mission is alleged to be in pre-production, in keeping with Variety, with the 77-year-old “Blue Bayou” singer’s supervisor, John Boylan, hooked up as a producer, together with James Keach, the producer of the 2019 documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.

No different casting has but been revealed.

The information has been celebrated on-line by a number of Gomez followers, who’ve praised the casting as “perfect”. “I mean look at the material. She’s gonna kill it in this role, ahh,” one particular person tweeted.

“Phenomenal casting,” a second declared, whereas a 3rd referred to as Gomez’s resemblance to Rondstadt “uncanny”. The Wizards of Waverly Place alum has beforehand mentioned that she used to at all times get advised that she regarded like the enduring singer.

Ronstadt is alleged to have given Gomez her stamp of approval, TMZ reported.

The Latin artist Rondstadt rose to prominence in the mid-Nineteen Sixties as a part of the folk rock and nation rock scene. She turned greatest recognized for her 1974 album Heart Like a Wheel and 1977 album Simple Dreams, with the previous incomes her an Album of the Year Grammy nomination.

Rondstadt went on to win 11 Grammy awards all through her profession earlier than saying her retirement from music in 2011. She later revealed that she is not in a position to sing attributable to supranuclear palsy, which was initially misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s illness.

Gomez, who can be of Mexican descent, can at present be seen in Hulu’s Emmy-nominated comedy Only Murders in the Building. She most just lately landed a 2024 Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by a Female Actor on Television in a Musical/Comedy Series for her function as Mabel. However, The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri received the class.

Earlier this week, the “Lose You To Love Me” singer introduced that she could be occurring one other social media break following the Golden Globe gossip.

During the Sunday ceremony, Gomez was seen chatting with Taylor Swift. Several eagle-eyed viewers speculated that Gomez advised Swift that Kylie Jenner mentioned “no” when she requested Timotheé Chalamet for a photograph. But in keeping with the “Bad Liar” singer, she was whispering about two buddies who had connected.

“I told Taylor about two of my friends who hooked up,” she commented on E! News’s Instagram submit. “Not that that’s anyone’s business.”