‘The Queen’s Gambit’-fame Moses Ingram to play Robyn Crawford in Whitney Houston biopic

By Express News Service
Actor Moses Ingram has been roped in to play Whitney Houston’s longtime assistant Robyn Crawford within the upcoming musical biopic of the enduring singer.

Titled I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the movie is headlined by Naomi Ackie. The Sony and TriStar movie shall be directed by Stella Meghie and has a screenplay by Bohemian Rhapsody author Anthony McCarten.

The biopic will observe the life story of the enduring artist behind hits like I Will Always Love You and How Will I Know. Houston, who received six Grammys in her musical profession, made her appearing debut with the 1992 blockbuster hit The Bodyguard. She additionally recorded six songs for the movie’s soundtrack, together with I Will Always Love You.

Crawford, who labored as Houston’s assistant later turned her artistic director whereas additionally remaining as considered one of her closest buddies. I Wanna Dance With Somebody is slated for launch throughout Thanksgiving 2022.Ingram just lately made her TV debut via Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit.

She is presently capturing for the Star Wars collection Obi-Wan Kenobi and can subsequent be seen portraying Lady Macduff reverse Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in The Tragedy of Macbeth. The actor just lately wrapped manufacturing on Peter Hedges’s The Same Storm and on Michael Bay’s Ambulance.