It's so easy to see Selena Gomez in her next role. The singer/actress is set to play Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic, according to the website of Great Eastern Music, a music publisher founded by John Boylan, the “Blue Bayou” singer's manager.
“The long-rumored Linda Ronstadt biopic is now in development. Selena Gomez is attached to play Linda,” the announcement reads in the Projects page of the site. “The two recently spent a few hours at Linda's house discussing the project and dating.”
According to Great Eastern Music, the film will be produced by James Keats (who also produced the Oscar-winning Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line and the Grammy Award-winning documentary Ronstadt The Sound of My Voice) along with Boylan. The title of the film has not been revealed.
The “You're No Good” singer also appeared to confirm the news her Instagram accountshare screenshots of it Variety and Rolling rock's reports that Gomez will portray her in her Stories. On her verified Facebook pagealso shared one of those quotes, writing the caption: “It all started with a simple dream.”
Advertising sign I hadn't heard from the reps about Boylan or Gomez at press time.
Fan speculation about Gomez's new role began on Tuesday (January 9) after the “Single Soon” singer shared a photo of Ronstadt's book Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir to her Instagram stories. An hour later, the Only murders in the building The star announced on the same platform that she was going to take a short break from social media to focus on “what really matters”, with the message written over a picture of her boyfriend Benny Blanco.
It's not hard to see why Gomez would be a good fit for the role. According to the star herself, she looks like the 11-time Grammy winner. “I've always been told I look like her,” Gomez previously said during a 2015 appearance at On Air with Ryan Seacrest. “And I started listening to her music because of that.”
Ronstadt announced her retirement in 2011, citing a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, but later shared that she actually has a brain disorder called progressive supranuclear palsy, which is similar to Parkinson's. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy in 2016. During her decade-long career, she earned 10 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, with “You're No Good reaching peaked in February 1975. Other top five hits include “Don't Know Much” (featuring Aaron Neville, No. 2), “Somewhere Out There” (featuring James Ingram, No. 2), “When Will I Be Loved' (No. 2), 'Blue Bayou' (No. 3), 'It's So Easy' (No. 5) and 'Heat Wave/Love Is a Rose' (No. 5).
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