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Janelle Monáe to Play Con Artist in Film Adaptation of Tanya Smith’s ‘Never Saw Me Coming’
Janelle Monáe will play a con artist who orchestrates heists and accumulates millions in a film adaptation of Tanya Smith's 'Never Saw Me Coming.'
After mastering low-level scams, she found ways to “void utility bills,” she writes in her memoir, and “handle overdue mortgages” as a teenager. In the memoir, Smith chalks up her long sentence to racism, recounting one FBI officer allegedly saying “neeee-grroes murder, steal and rob, but they don’t have the brains to commit sophisticated crimes like this.” While incarcerated, she escaped twice and gave birth twice. Monáe last graced television screens during a Grammy’s tribute to Quincy Jones, where she moonwalked to Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.”
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