Selena Gomez; Linda Ronstadt.Photo:Catherine Powell/Getty; Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty
Catherine Powell/Getty; Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty
Good forSelena Gomez!
The singer and actress, 31, confirmed on Instagram Stories Friday that she will play musical legendLinda Ronstadtin an upcoming biopic.
Selena Gomez in New York City in December 2022.Cindy Ord/Getty Images
Cindy Ord/Getty Images
“The long-rumored Linda Ronstadt biopic is now up-and-running. Selena Gomez is attached to play Linda,” reads the announcement on thewebsite’s “Projects” page. “The two recently spent a few hours at Linda’s home discussing the project and getting to know each other.”
Prior to the announcement, Gomez sharedan Instagram Storyearlier this month that featured the cover of the “Desperado” singer’s 2013 memoirSimple Dreams, which she appeared to be reading.
Selena Gomez with Linda Ronstadt’s memoir ‘Simple Dreams’.Selena Gomez/ Instagram
Selena Gomez/ Instagram
The following day, Ronstadt sharedInstagram Storiesrelated to the casting in the press with the caption as well as a post on herverified Facebook pagethat said: “It all started with a simple dream 👀💕.”
Gomez and the “You’re No Good” performer are both of Mexican descent, and the “Single Soon” musician has noted their similarities in appearance before.
“I always used to get told that I look like her,” Gomez previously said during a 2015 appearance onOn Air with Ryan Seacrest,perBillboard.“And I started listening to her music because of that.”
Linda Ronstadt in 1982.Clayton Call/Redferns
Ronstadt’s music career came to a devastating halt when she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2013. She had lost her singing voice four years earlier.
“It’s like not having a leg or an arm, but there’s nothing I can do about it,” the rock singertold PEOPLEin 2019.
“It felt like something was wrong, but I couldn’t tell what it was,” she said, describing the initial symptoms. “First, I thought it was my headphone mix, then I thought it was the microphone, then I thought some frequencies were just missing from my voice. It got slowly, steadily worse.”
Along with the loss of her musical instrument, her mobility declined.
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“There’s nothing I can do and I just learned how to live with it,” she said.
However, Ronstadt has since discovered she has a Parkinson’s-like condition called progressive supranuclear palsy,perTODAY.
source: people.com
