Jennifer Hudson is Aretha Franklin in RESPECT. See the teaser trailer here.
starring
Jennifer Hudson as Aretha
Franklin
Forest Whitaker as C.L.
Franklin
Marlon Wayans as Ted
White
Audra McDonald as Barbara
Franklin
Tituss Burgess as Reverend
Dr. James Cleveland
Marc Maron as Jerry
Wexler
Kimberly Scott as Mama
Franklin
Saycon Sengbloh as Erma
Franklin
Hailey Kilgore as Carolyn
Franklin
Heather Headley as Clara
Ward
Skye Dakota Turner as Young
Aretha Franklin
Tate Donovan as John
Hammond
and
Mary J. Blige as Dinah
Washington
Director Liesl Tommy makes her feature film debut
with Respect. Tommy is the first Black woman ever nominated for a Tony award for Best Direction of a Play in 2016 for Eclipsed, and is
an Associate Artist at the Berkeley Rep and an Artist Trustee with the Sundance Institute’s Board of Trustees.
With a story by Callie Khouri (Oscar ® winner for Thelma
& Louise) and Tracey Scott Wilson,
and screenplay written by Tracey Scott Wilson. Wilson and Tommy have
worked together creatively since the 2009 play The Good Negro written
by Wilson, directed by Tommy at The Public Theatre. Wilson was a writer on FX’s The Americans which garnered her a Peabody Award as well as Emmy and WGA Award nominations.
#RespectMovie
Following
the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from
a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international
superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s
journey to find her voice.
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