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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Janelle Monáe Joins Focus Features’ Harriet

The multi-talented, Grammy Award -nominated artist Janelle Monáe joins the cast of Focus Features’ Harriet , the new feature chronicling the life of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Monáe joins the previously announced cast including Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winner Cynthia Erivo as Tubman, along with Tony and Grammy Award-winner Leslie Odom Jr. , Joe Alwyn, multiple Grammy Award-winner Jennifer Nettles, Clarke Peters, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Zackary Momoh, Deborah Ayorinde , and Vondie Curtis-Hall . Awarding winning director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou) is set to direct a screenplay she co-wrote with Gregory Allen Howard (Ali, Remember the Titans). Debra Martin Chase (The Princess Diaries, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) with Martin Chase Productions, Daniela Taplin Lundberg (Beasts of No Nation, The Kids are All Right) with Stay Gold Features and Gregory Allen Howard will produce. The film is set to begin filming this October in Virginia. Monáe will soon be seen on