are bringing their story to the small-screen in the Lifetime biopic, Salt-N-Pepa. Helmed by New Jack City director Mario Van Peebles, the artists signed on as executive producers for the film, which chronicles their rise from nursing school in Queensborough Community College to becoming two of the most recognized women in the world.The musical icons entrusted All American’s GG Townson and The Bobby DeBarge Story’s Laila Odom to step into their shoes. “Cheryl just embraced me wholeheartedly,” Townson said during a press conference for the film. “She was an open book.
She told me the good, the bad, and the ugly about everything. Any question that I ever had, I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own.
Read more on essence.com