{"id":16823,"date":"2012-09-17T16:26:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16823"},"modified":"2012-09-17T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:26:39","slug":"zoe-saldana-is-not-dark-enough-for-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16823","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Saldana Is Not \u2018Dark Enough\u2019 For Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since it was announced that <em>\u201cAvatar\u201d<\/em> star Zoe Saldana had been tapped to play jazz\/blues\/folk singer and activist <strong>Nina Simone<\/strong>, there has been sizable backlash from the <strong>Simone<\/strong> family. Why, because <strong>Saldana<\/strong> is deemed too light for the role, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Last month it was announced that Dominican-Puerto Rican actress <strong>Saldana<\/strong> was chosen to play <strong>Simone<\/strong> in a biopic about her life by writer and director <strong>Cynthia Mort<\/strong> and executive producer <strong>Jimmy Iovine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While the lead role in the jazz icon\u2019s life is a sure win for <strong>Saldana<\/strong>, family members and bloggers believe it is a loss for <strong>Simone<\/strong> and her legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since it was announced that \u201cAvatar\u201d star Zoe Saldana had been tapped to play jazz\/blues\/folk singer and activist Nina Simone, there has been sizable backlash from the Simone family. Why, because Saldana is deemed too light for the role, according to reports. Last month it was announced that Dominican-Puerto Rican actress Saldana was chosen [&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-16823","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\/16823","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=16823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}