Gracie Marie Bradley, Sharon Stone, Niecy Nash and Giancarlo Esposito star in the 2022 Tribeca-selected film, streaming on Netflix June 29.
What really is the cost of fame?
The music industry of the 1980s is explored in Netflix’s “Beauty,” written and produced by Lena Waithe and directed by the Sundance Film Festival’s beloved Andrew Dosunmu, who also executive produces the film. “Beauty” premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and premieres on Netflix June 29.
Gracie Marie Bradley stars as the titular beauty, a singer on the rise who struggles to maintain her identity after an executive, played by Sharon Stone, offers her a lucrative recording contract. Niecy Nash and Giancarlo Esposito play Beauty’s parents, who worry if she’s “ready” for all that she has to bring into the spotlight.
“Do you know what they do to stars? They build you up just so they can tear you down,” Nash says in the trailer, before warning Bradley, “You won’t be real. You will be a fantasy.
Bradley as Beauty states: “I can’t sing Black, white. I only know how to sing, because that’s what I like to do. I just want to use the gift that God gave me.”
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“Queen and Slim” screenwriter Waithe wrote the R-rated drama set in the 1980s. The Emmy-winning writer/producer/star of “Master of None” also appeared on “Better Things” and lent her voice to revival animated series “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.” Waithe also writes on the television series “The Chi,” which she created, and is producing the basketball drama “Chang Can Dunk” and the upcoming foster care drama “A Thousand and One.”
Waithe is currently in pre-production on the documentary “Being Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Documentary,” which she co-created with Moore’s late husband, Dr. S. Robert Levine, about the making of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” .
“Beauty” director Andrew Dosunmu previously directed “Mother of George,” “Restless City” and the critically acclaimed “Where’s Kyra?” The Sundance alum is set to direct the historical period piece “Marked Man,” about a young black man who joined J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation and infiltrates Marcu Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association. Winston Duke, Jesse Williams and DeWanda Wise are set to star.
“Beauty” is produced by Waithe and Michael Ellenberg, with Dosunmu, Carrie Fix and Rishi Rajani serving as executive producers.
Take a look at the trailer below.
“Beauty” premieres June 29 on Netflix.
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