{"id":66601,"date":"2015-12-08T04:51:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66601"},"modified":"2015-12-08T04:51:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:51:23","slug":"queen-latifah-to-play-surrogate-mom-to-3-struggling-singers-in-fox-drama-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/08\/queen-latifah-to-play-surrogate-mom-to-3-struggling-singers-in-fox-drama-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Latifah to play surrogate mom to 3 struggling singers in Fox drama pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66602\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zqXF79sG.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66602\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zqXF79sG.jpeg\" alt=\"Queen Latifah (Twitter photo)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zqXF79sG.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zqXF79sG-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zqXF79sG-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Latifah (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAMQUEENLATIFAH\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Queen Latifah is starring in a new drama pilot from filmmaker Lee Daniels, the co-creator of Fox TV\u2019s \u201cEmpire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The untitled Fox pilot is about three young women trying to make it in the music industry. Latifah plays Carlotta, a beauty salon owner who becomes a surrogate mom to the trio, the network said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>After open auditions, three newcomers were cast as the aspiring singers: Jude Demorest and Ryan Destiny, both from Detroit, Michigan, and Brittany O&#8217;Grady from Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Musician-actress Latifah starred in NBC&#8217;s live production of \u201cThe Wiz\u201d last week and played the famed blues singer Bessie Smith in the Emmy-winning HBO movie, \u201cBessie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pilot, which could be the basis for a series, begins production this month in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Queen Latifah is starring in a new drama pilot from filmmaker Lee Daniels, the co-creator of Fox &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[9636],"class_list":["post-66601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-cp","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}