The drama sees Simone portray a cunning Black girl running one of five high school factions. In January, Simone made her bid for leading lady status in Selah and The Spades, the directorial debut from Tayarisha Poe. (Photo by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images)Ģ019 Shadow And Act RISING Award winner Lovie Simone is best known for her role as Zora, the rebellious daughter of Kerissa and Jacob on the OWN show, Greenleaf .(and she’s also our pick to play Bella in our Black Twilight Saga: Midnight vampire series remake). PARK CITY, UT – JANUARY 27: Actor Lovie Simone attends the “Selah And The Spades” Premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival at Egyptian Theatre on Januin Park City, Utah. (Photo by Rachel Luna/Getty Images)Īntoinette Robertson is best known for her role as Colandrea “Coco” Conners in Justin Simien’s Netflix TV version of Dear White People. Like Tiana, Robertson’s Coco is hardworking and ambitious, making it an ideal foundation for inspiration if Robertson were asked to portray the Disney Princess.

Here are 10 emerging actresses who would cast a spell and enchant viewers as Princess Tiana in a live-action cinematic version of The Princess and the Frog.īEVERLY HILLS, CA – JUNE 05: Antoinette Robertson arrives at An Evening With “Dear White People” at The Paley Center for Media on Jin Beverly Hills, California. Not since Brandy in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella have we seen a dark-skinned Black actress in the role of a Disney princess. This would also present an opportunity for Disney to cast an emerging actress in the role of Tiana, Disney’s first Black princess. With recent Disney classics like Cinderella and Beauty and The Beast getting the live action treatment, now could be a perfect time to make a live-action adaptation of The Princess and the Frog a reality. In late April, Matthew Cherry, executive and director at Monkeypaw Productions, retweeted a tweet from fan casting How To Get Away with Murder actor Rome Flynn in the role of Prince Naveen in an imagined live-action theatrical version of The Princess and the Frog. At the end of his retweet, Cherry posed an interesting question: “This is smart.

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