{"id":10521,"date":"2011-10-10T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10521"},"modified":"2011-10-10T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T20:04:07","slug":"fantasia-may-be-dropped-from-mahalia-jackson-biopic-for-having-baby-out-of%c2%a0wedlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10521","title":{"rendered":"Fantasia May Be Dropped From Mahalia Jackson Biopic For Having Baby Out Of\u00a0Wedlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer <strong>Fantasia Barrino<\/strong> may lose her role as <strong>Mahalia Jackson<\/strong> in the late gospel singer&#8217;s biopic because producers feel her status as an unwed mother contradict the values of the gospel film.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, producers may already be searching for a replacement for the former American Idol winner in<strong> Missy Elliott<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The family thinks if <strong>Fantasia<\/strong> plays the role, it&#8217;s going to sully the name of <strong>Mahalia<\/strong>.\u00a0 They think she&#8217;s got the wrong image, having a child out of wedlock.\u201d said the movie&#8217;s executive producer, <strong>Adrian Taylor<\/strong>, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, producers are also livid with <strong>Barrino<\/strong> for lying about her pregnancy, initially saying her weight gain was for the role.<\/p>\n<p>Production on the film has been halted until <strong>Fantasia&#8217;s<\/strong> child in born. The stoppage in production may force director <strong>Euzhan Palcy<\/strong> to drop out of the film.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, according to <strong>Dino Gankendorff<\/strong>, who represents <strong>Mahalia Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong> estate, <strong>Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong> family has little knowledge of the situation, \u201cI&#8217;m not really aware of any objections that the heirs have to the casting of <strong>Fantasia<\/strong>. I understand that they were getting ready to film and that she is pregnant, and I don&#8217;t know who is she pregnant by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fantasia&#8217;s<\/strong> due date is December 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Fantasia Barrino may lose her role as Mahalia Jackson in the late gospel singer&#8217;s biopic because producers feel her status as an unwed mother contradict the values of the gospel film. According to reports, producers may already be searching for a replacement for the former American Idol winner in Missy Elliott. The family thinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}