Upcoming biopic about LIZA--but will it star Gaga? The Guardian says, "Of course!"
As the repeatedly stalled Madonna biopic has shown, it’s difficult to make a film about a real-life icon, especially when the icon in question has a say in who will play them. And so it might prove to be with Liza Minnelli. Earlier this year, Minnelli announced that she is writing what is sure to be a blockbuster memoir. The book promises to pull no punches which – when you factor in her parents, her addiction issues and her complicated love life – is a hell of a lot of punches not to pull.
The book isn’t due to come out until 2026. Despite this, the television rights have already been optioned and, even though it’s so far in the distance, Minnelli has already got several ideas about casting. In an email to People magazine, she wrote: “First, we need a great script and an actress who loves to move,” adding, “Honey, first, I’m a dancer … like the great line in Chorus Line: God, I’m a dancer … a dancer dances … even with replaced hips and scoliosis!”
Clearly, whoever does end up getting cast is almost certainly going to end up as an awards frontrunner, especially given that Renée Zellweger won an Oscar for playing her mother just five years ago. In the email, Minnelli hinted that the line was already starting to stretch around the block. “We’re very grateful that Academy award, Emmy, Tony and Grammy winners are so excited to talk with us.”
Which seems like a polite way to say that it’s definitely going to be Lady Gaga. Because of course it is. No actor in the world is hungrier for awards than Lady Gaga, which is why she kept giving that “One hundred people in a room,” speech during her A Star Is Born campaign, and why she went so deeply method for House of Gucci that she wrote a letter to her own personality saying: “I don’t need you right now”. A chance to play a world-class singer and generationally talented dancer who gets to emote her way through numerous traumas? This is the role that Lady Gaga has been waiting her entire life to play.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 37 | December 4, 2024 8:22 PM
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A DANSHER DANSHES, EVEN WITH REPLAYSHED HIPSH AND SHCOLIOSHISH
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 3, 2024 10:26 PM
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Will they do that think where one actress plays the subject in her teens and 20s, then another takes over for the mature years?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 3, 2024 10:36 PM
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R4 Bomb
And that write up of Lady Fuckga is nauseating. “Wrote a letter to her personality” WT actual FUCK. It makes me despise her.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 3, 2024 10:40 PM
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Meant OP, not 4 obviously
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 3, 2024 10:41 PM
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Why does Liza always say she's a dancer? No one thinks of her in that way no matter how many times she says it.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 3, 2024 10:54 PM
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[quote]r7 Why does Liza always say she's a dancer? No one thinks of her in that way no matter how many times she says it.
Right. She never even had a chorus job where she just danced, did she?
Lee Remick began as a dancer - that’s how she got her Equity card. Goldie Hawn began as a dancer. But it’s a job you ditch as soon as better stuff’s offered to you… because who makes a real career out of just being a voiceless dancer, besides Barrie Chase?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 3, 2024 11:03 PM
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[quote]Why does Liza always say she's a dancer?
Hey, I made Schteppin' Out!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | December 3, 2024 11:16 PM
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Will Gaga and Lizsha eat reheated pasta together?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 3, 2024 11:49 PM
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R2 like Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis did for Mama.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 4, 2024 12:14 AM
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Who plays Lorna's molester?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 4, 2024 12:43 AM
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Maybe Lorna can play Kay Thompson… or someone.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 4, 2024 12:44 AM
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"wrote a letter to her own personality..." Just when you think that dear old Stef couldn't get more pretentious and annoying
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 4, 2024 12:51 AM
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R15 She’d kill her parents to make this movie as she would see awards awards awards thinking she’s that good. Who wants a Liza flick? Who wants her playing Liza? But that’s who it’d be for sure. HW will steer her to a movie sure to bomb and bonus it’s a musical so she doesn’t stink up another non-musical movie.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 4, 2024 1:01 AM
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Kay Thompson has to be played by a drag queen.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 4, 2024 1:28 AM
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Is Hugh too old to do his Peter Allen act again?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 4, 2024 1:35 AM
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Hugh is about a decade older than Peter Allen was when he died, so yes.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 4, 2024 1:40 AM
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[quote]Why does Liza always say she's a dancer? No one thinks of her in that way no matter how many times she says it.
You're an idiot, r7.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 4, 2024 1:44 AM
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I'm looking forward to Liza's memoir. She fucking lived the seventies.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 4, 2024 1:47 AM
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Where is the Streisand biopic ?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 4, 2024 1:48 AM
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I hope Gaga plays her. She would kill it. She’s more Liza than anyone else out there today.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 4, 2024 1:53 AM
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R23 She’d kill it that’s for sure.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 4, 2024 2:32 AM
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[quote]R21 I'm looking forward to Liza's memoir. She fucking lived the seventies.
But does she remember it?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 4, 2024 2:37 AM
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The most important question of all:
Who will play Georgia??
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 4, 2024 2:40 AM
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Obsessing over her wheelchair appearance at the Oscars isn’t very smart. It already been forgotten (for most), its not worth bringing up again.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 4, 2024 1:22 PM
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She was interviewed in the Halston documentary and she touchingly said she wasn't going to talk negative about him. And she's been mum about Judy forever. What will she write about?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 4, 2024 4:15 PM
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[quote] What will she write about?
Blue!
I like blue.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 4, 2024 6:35 PM
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Hopefully this biopic will be an honest account of all the diversity she's overcome.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 4, 2024 6:42 PM
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In OP’s image, is that a headband or part of a wig?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 4, 2024 6:43 PM
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R22 Why would i want that?
I mean who´s gonna play me? I mean after i´m gone they can do whatever they want with me but not while i´m alive. I don´t know why this is so popular...
Babs 2021
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 4, 2024 8:00 PM
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