Erykah Badu, Gail Bean, Jerrika Hinton, Stephan James & Others Added To Netflix’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ Film Adaptation
Deadline reports that Netflix has added four-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Erykah Badu, who will make a cameo appearance with musical performances, Gail Bean, Jerrika Hinton, Stephan James, Malik J. Ali, Jay Peterson and Matrell Smith to its feature adaptation of the play The Piano Lesson out of August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle”
They join John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Fisher, and Michael Potts, who all starred in the Tony Award nominated Broadway revival of the play, with Danielle Deadwyler and Corey Hawkins rounding out the ensemble.
Set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson centers on the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor.
Malcolm Washington will direct, in his feature debut, from his script written with Mudbound‘s Virgil Williams. Denzel Washington and Todd Black are producing, with Constanza Romero, Jennifer Roth and Katia Washington serving as exec producers.