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Originally Posted by 33girl
I couldn't tell from the previews, but it seemed like...is Queen Latifah playing Shelby???? She's a little long in the tooth for that particular part.
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No, she's playing M'Lynn, Shelby's mother.
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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
Because it's based on a sorority sister's life. I don't understand how you change a true story.
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I don't think it's really accurate to call it a "true story." It is a fictionalized story based -- sometimes more loosely, sometimes less so -- on the death and humor-filled approach to life of the playwright's sister and on the women who surrounded her. Harling didn't write the play as a reenactment of his sister's life and death. Like any good play, it's bigger than that.
And fwiw, according to the New York Times, the all-black cast was Harling's idea.