Dolly Parton Hopes To Play A Role In The Movie Version Of Her New Novel
etcanada.comDolly Parton is getting into the fiction game. The iconic country star has teamed up with bestselling writer James Patterson to pen the new thriller novel Run Rose Run, and she’s already envisioning the role she’d play in a movie adaptation. READ MORE: Kelly Clarkson Announces Dolly Parton Tribute At ACM Awards Show In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning”, Parton tells Lee Cowan all about the book, in which a young up-and-coming singer is at one point comforted by a retired country star. “I’m hoping to get to play that character when we do a movie of the book, which we hope to do, at some point,” Parton says in a preview clip from the interview.
The book was pitched to Parton by Patterson in 2019 as a celebration of music, but also a cautionary tale about the industry. “It shows a lot of the dark side of that – people that have been in it, like me, you know, because you’ve lived it,” the musician says. READ MORE: Dolly Parton Shares Rare Throwback Photo Of Her And Husband Carl Thomas Dean “Did you experience a lot of that?
Some of which is in the book?” Cowan asks. “Oh, yeah,” she says. “You see all that. You, you get, you get, all the managers that – people will rip you off, they try to steal your songs, they’ll con you, they’ll do whatever.
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