EXCLUSIVE: Azealia Banks, the provocative hip-hop artist who made her debut last year with the album Broke With Expensive Taste, has just landed her first starring role in a feature film. She’ll play the title character in Coco, a drama for Lionsgate and Codeblack Films that will be directed by Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA. She stars with Common, Jill Scott, Lucien Laviscount, Lorraine Toussaint and Hana Mae Lee. It has a script from Nicole Jefferson Asher and will be produced by Paul Hall. Pic is about to get underway.
In the Brooklyn-set drama, Banks plays an aspiring twentysomething rapper who wants a career in hip-hop but is torn by her parents’ dreams that she finish college. She gives in. While matriculating, she finds herself in the classroom; she experiences the true calling of the power of the spoken word, which helps her goals as a hip-hop artist. It has a bit of 8 Mile edge to it. Banks, who is repped by Prospect Park and The Davis Firm, will tour overseas beginning next month. The film is overseen by John Sacchi, Bree Bailey and Jessica Switch.
Ok. Can she act? Who am I kidding–doesn’t really matter anymore
She went to a performing arts school for acting and singing.
+1
….but can she act??
awesome news I know she will rock this role
She’s been acting like she’s a talented hip hp artist for years now, so this should be easy for her…
Oh, this is hysterical.
She’s hot! I’m in!
I’m not sure which is funnier; the bad casting or that last sentence: “The film is overseen by John Sacchi, Bree Bailey and Jessica Switch.” So RZA needs 3 babysitters?
I repped the girl right out of LGHS . She can act. She was a force of nature back then. Its only a matter of time now :)
More crap for the pseudo-intellectual supreme leader, RZA.
RZA is a great guy – smart, humble, focussed. What’s your problem, J? Stop shitting on others and build your own career…
More Hating from the non-intellectual, no career having, jealous sucka “J”
i won’t deny that his music and lyricism is great, but have you guys ever heard him speak in an interview? or read what he’s written? he’s a pseudo..
this girl can’t act or rap, her only album sold 31,000 copies so far and it came out in the fall of 2014, she has never had a hit song. she is just some racist black girl in the post ferguson america who posed for playboy and registered one of their worst sold issues ever in march 2015, she is just a iggy azalia wannabe.
Last bit of your run-on sentence indicates you know absolutely nothing about rap music.
Nobody wants to be Iggly lmao
its gonna be one of those black movies that black folks don’t even go see, it will be in the buy one get one free pile at walmart the day after it opens.
Azelia is more looks than… would be nice to see her get to play a variety of roles instead of just acting hard, which she doesn’t do very well.
Hip-hop and art should never be used in a sentence.