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Selena Gomez to star in Linda Ronstadt biopic

Film from Walk the Line producer will tell story of singer who became a rare successful woman in male-dominated 1970s rock scene

A note on Boylan’s website says Gomez and Ronstadt, who both have Mexican heritage, “recently spent a few hours at Linda’s home discussing the project and getting to know each other”. But she had to work hard to assert her place in an often sexist music industry, and spoke candidly of the alienation she experienced: “They haven’t invented a word for that loneliness that everybody goes through on the road,” she said. As well as her continuing role in sitcom Only Murders in the Building, she will next be seen in musical comedy drama Emilia Perez, from Jacques Audiard, the French director of A Prophet, The Beat That My Heart Skipped and Rust and Bone.

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