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Danielle Deadwyler To Star In & Produce Adaptation Of Ann Petry’s ‘The Street’
Danielle Deadwyler will star in and produce 'The Street,' a film based on Ann Petry's novel of the same name.
This is the harrowing story of young Black woman Lutie Johnson (Deadwyler) and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. She called The Street “essential to American literature,” saying that this was “evident upon its marvelous critically acclaimed debut; and, now, with this steadfast and dynamic collaboration with Alix, Michael, Gina, myself and the Petry estate, we hope to rumble the film landscape with an adaptation of her evergreen tale of the lengths to which one mother, one woman is stretched for self, family and the costs of survival.” Other upcoming projects for the actressinclude HBO’s untitled Steve Carell comedy from Bill Lawrence, Matt Tarses and Warner Bros. TV, as well as Fifth Season’s Otis & Zelma opposite John Boyega, of which she is an EP.
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