It’s been only a month since Janelle Monáe joined Harriet Tubman biopic, and it seems she’ll be starring in a movie about another feminist icon. She just accepted the offer to star alongside Julianne Moore in The Glorias: A Life On The Road.
The upcoming biopic will be based on Gloria Steinem’s best-selling memoir My Life on the Road. It’s been described as “the story of her itinerant childhood’s influence on her life as a writer, activist, and organizer for women’s rights worldwide.”
Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander and newcomer Lulu Wilson will portray this trailblazer during different stages of her life. Janelle Monáe is set to play fellow feminist legend and good friend Dorothy Pitman Hughes.
2018 has been a pretty crazy year for Monáe but in a completely different department. Her latest studio album Dirty Computer was a smash-hit and it even received Grammy Award for the biggest honor of the night – Album of the Year.
This doesn’t mean she’s a complete stranger to the world of acting. Monáe got her breakthrough in 2016, thanks to the roles in Hidden Figures and Moonlight and joined several promising projects ever since.
