FKA Twigs Becomes Josephine Baker: Inside the Lavish, Globe-Spanning Biopic from Maimouna Doucouré and Studiocanal (EXCLUSIVE)

FKA Twigs Becomes Josephine Baker: Inside the Lavish, Globe-Spanning Biopic from Maimouna Doucouré and Studiocanal (EXCLUSIVE) hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 11, 2026 10:20am PT FKA Twigs Becomes Josephine Baker: Inside the Lavish, Globe-Spanning Biopic from Maimouna Doucouré and Studiocanal (EXCLUSIVE) By Elsa Keslassy Plus Icon Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent @elsakeslassy Latest FKA Twigs Becomes Josephine Baker: Inside the Lavish, Globe-Spanning Biopic from Maimouna Doucouré and Studiocanal (EXCLUSIVE) 25 seconds ago Alexander Skarsgård, Hunter Schafer, Maya Hawke, Harry Melling to Star in ‘The Confessions,’ With Ari Aster Producing (EXCLUSIVE) 22 hours ago AFM 2026: Indie Film Faces a Tougher Market — But Theatrical Breakouts Offer Hope 1 day ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments On a crisp October afternoon in the Bois de Vincennes, on the outskirts of Paris, FKA twigs is transported back to 1950s America. Wearing a cream-colored pinstriped coat, a dark beret and black leather gloves, the British singer and dancer has been up since the early hours, with a 4 a.m.

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pickup for hair and makeup to transform into Josephine Baker, the legendary entertainer and civil rights activist. Standing opposite her is Oscar-nominated actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who plays Baker’s mother.

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The two are filming a tense confrontation at a cemetery, a scene that cuts to the heart of Maïmouna Doucouré’s ambitious biopic. Related Stories Daniel Dae Kim and 3AD Board North Korean Defector Documentary ‘School for Defectors’ (EXCLUSIVE) Between takes, FKA twigs stays in character, looking pensive and emotional.

The atmosphere on set is studious and distinctly international, with cast and crew switching between English and French. And while the cemetery scene unfolding that afternoon is intimate, other sequences have the scale and flamboyance of a classic Hollywood production, notably those recreating the legendary Folies Bergère cabaret in Paris, where Baker became a sensation in the 1920s.

The sprawling production has enlisted some 2,400 extras. Yet behind the lavish costumes, musical performances and sweeping historical canvas, “Josephine Baker” is ultimately a portrait of a woman whose extraordinary public life was shaped by private wounds.

“What’s most important to me is not simply portraying Josephine as this powerful woman, this icon who was inducted into the Panthéon. We already know that side of her.

I want to tell the story of the woman behind the icon,” says Doucouré, the Sundance-winning filmmaker behind “Cuties” and “Hawa,” speaking over lunch with the crew. “I want to explore her wounds, her vulnerability, her flaws, the things that shaped her and the extraordinary resilience she developed,” she says.

“I think her strength becomes even more extraordinary when you understand where it comes from.” Rather than delivering a conventional biopic, Doucouré has built the narrative around Baker’s return to the United States in 1951, when the celebrated performer, who had found fame and freedom in France, confronted the racial segregation she had fled decades earlier. The film moves between that pivotal period and flashbacks to Baker’s childhood in St.

Louis, her meteoric rise in 1920s Paris, her work with the French Resistance during World War II and her later years. The prestige project marks a considerable leap in scale for Doucouré and ranks among the most ambitious French-produced biopics in years.

Studiocanal is co-producing with Bien ou Bien Productions, Doucouré and her partner Zangro’s banner, as well as financing and handling international sales. Finding the actress wh

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