Nearly five months after Dionne Warwick announced that she was looking into a possible Netflix biopic and selected Teyana Taylor to play her in the series, Taylor has come forward with an update to their fans which in turn confirms the forthcoming project.

During a new interview with Buzzfeed, Teyana offered an update of the biopic saying: “We’re literally at the stages of getting everything laid out. One thing we’re very clear on is that we definitely want it to be a series,” she said. “Dionne has been an icon for so many decades — not years, but decades! Her story is still continuing, so we knew an hour-and-a-half movie wasn’t gonna do it. Ninety minutes ain’t enough girl, you need a whole series!”

The ‘Boomin’ singer goes on to share her experience on spending with Warwick: “It’s dope that I actually get to spend time with her, because when you’re portraying someone’s life, getting that opportunity can be rare,” she said. ” Sometimes things aren’t approved or other times the person isn’t physically here to say what they want, so to know that she’s gonna be a part of this for the whole ride is absolutely amazing. We will be telling her story from her own words, and I’m so excited. Dionne and her son have literally been so lovely.”

Warwick spoke with Entertainment Weekly in February and revealed that her life story will be made into a film series.

“It’s going to be a series, we’re planning to do an episodic type of a show. [Teyana] is certainly a talented young lady with whom I’ve had the pleasure of interfacing,” she said. “In fact, we had a conversation last night on the telephone. She’s very excited about the prospect of being involved and she’s also going to be very, very much involved in directing it and putting together parts and parcel of how we see this going.”

We are so excited for the project and can’t wait to see Teyana play Warwick, especially with how similar they look.

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