Motion pictures – Biopic On Daytime Speak’s “Queen Of Gossip” – Deadline
Trailblazer. Shock jock. Media mogul. Icon. These descriptions of syndicated speak veteran Wendy Williams flash throughout the display within the first trailer for Lifetime’s Wendy Williams: The Film.
Sure, the “Queen of Gossip” is getting the biopic therapy, and she or he performed the footage on her speak present Thursday. Test it out under.
“Wendy Williams is not going anywhere,” Ciara Payton (The Oval) as Williams says from behind a radio mic on the outset. “I’m gonna come in like a hurricane.”
And storm in she does in Wendy Williams: The Film, which chronicles the highs and lows she has has skilled all through the years — from her scrappy upstart days in city radio to the success of her personal daytime talker.
“You’re the star,” we hear her ex-husband Kevin Hunter (Morocco Omari) say.
Williams herself is among the many government producers, that means that is an “authorized biopic” — and it’s not going to gloss over the topic’s real-life foibles. “You’re self-indulgent, you’re narcissistic, you got a coke habit,” she is advised. We additionally see a re-enactment of her 2017 on-camera fainting spell whereas Williams was dressed as Woman Liberty for Halloween.
Wendy Williams: The Film premieres at eight p.m. Saturday, January 30, on Lifetime. It is going to be adopted by a feature-length documentary on Williams, by which sheds her non-public persona and speaks on to the digital camera in regards to the pleasure and the humiliation she has skilled since childhood.
Directed by Darren Grant, the biopic is produced by Entrance Street for Lifetime and government produced by Williams, Will Packer and Sheila Ducksworth. Leigh Davenport and Scarlett Lacey penned the script.
Right here is Williams’ tweet with the biopic trailer. If you wish to bypass her intro, the film footage begins on the 50-second mark:
Here is your first-look at “Wendy Williams: The Film” premiering on Saturday, January 30 on @lifetimetv! pic.twitter.com/bvS4Apl1eK
— Wendy Williams (@WendyWilliams) December 3, 2020
