{"id":4633,"date":"2019-10-03T22:08:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T22:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=4633"},"modified":"2019-10-03T22:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T22:08:35","slug":"cynthia-erivo-will-star-as-aretha-franklin-in-genius-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/cynthia-erivo-will-star-as-aretha-franklin-in-genius-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cynthia Erivo Will Star As Aretha Franklin In \u2018Genius\u2019 Season 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4634\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4634\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AP19276594322144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AP19276594322144.jpg 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AP19276594322144-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/AP19276594322144-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE &#8211; This Sept. 7, 2019 file photo shows actress-singer Cynthia Erivo at The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s Toronto International Film Festival party in Toronto. Erivo will play Aretha Franklin in a third installment of the National Geographic anthology series &#8220;Genius.&#8221; Production on \u201cGenius: Aretha\u201d will begin next month and the series is expected to debut next spring. (Photo by Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 National Geographic has found its next \u201cGenius.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The network has tapped Cynthia Erivo to play Aretha Franklin in a third installment of the anthology series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The authorized project will feature Franklin\u2019s music. Erivo will perform songs from the singer\u2019s catalog. Franklin died in 2018 of pancreatic cancer at age 76.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Erivo won a Tony Award, a Grammy and a Daytime Emmy for her work in \u201cThe Color Purple.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cGenius\u201d dramatizes the story of some of the world\u2019s most legendary innovators. Previous seasons focused on Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, starring Geoffrey Rush and Antonio Banderas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Production on \u201cGenius: Aretha\u201d will begin next month. The series is expected to debut next spring.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 National Geographic has found its next \u201cGenius.\u201d The network has tapped Cynthia Erivo to play Aretha Franklin in a third installment of the anthology series. The authorized project will feature Franklin\u2019s music. Erivo will perform songs from the singer\u2019s catalog. Franklin died in 2018 of pancreatic cancer at age 76. Erivo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[694,846,31],"class_list":["post-4633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-associated-press","tag-cynthia-erivo","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}