Celebrities Reveal Which Stars They Want to Play Them Onscreen in a Biopic: Side-by-Side Comparisons
27.05.2022 - 16:33
/ usmagazine.com
Playing a legend! While many celebrities had iconic career milestones through the years, it can be an impressive feat to see such accomplishments recreated on the big screen.
Celebrities such as Dolly Parton, Justin Bieber and Hillary Clinton are among the few who already have casting ideas in mind, though no films have officially been confirmed.
“There’s a lot of parts of my life that would make [a] good [movie] —just like the little ‘Coat of Many Colors’ in my early days, and then all the little pockets,” the “Jolene” songstress told Marie Claire in December 2020. “Years and years ago, when I was going to do the Broadway musical — I never can get it to how I want it, but I’m still working on it. But I thought [Kristin Chenoweth would] be an ideal person to do that. But we’re all getting older now, so if we tell the parts, we may be able to have different Dollys. We’d probably have to have — as long as my career has been — like a little Dolly, and a middle Dolly and then the older one. And she’d still be great for that.”
While Parton raved over the Wicked OG to play the part on the Great White Way, she previously name-dropped the likes of Reese Witherspoon and Scarlett Johansson in a movie adaptation. “That depends on when I get it done,” the 9 to 5 star told Elle in October 2019 of her final pick.
Witherspoon — who previously played June Cash in the Oscar-winning Walk the Line biopic of Johnny Cash’s life — has played coy about the speculation, though is in the process of adapting Parton’s Run, Rose, Run novel.
“Dolly Parton is not only an icon to me, but a true inspiration to women and girls everywhere,” the Big Little Lies alum said in a March 2022 statement of the project. “My admiration for her grew to even greater