‘Pose’ Star Dyllón Burnside To Portray Dwen Curry In BET+ True Crime Biopic; D.B. Woodside & A.J. Johnson Also Star
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: BET+ and MegaMind Media are collaborating on the true crime biopic Fighting To Be Me: The Dwen Curry Story, starring Dyllón Burnside (Pose), D.B.
Woodside (9-1-1: Lone Star) and A.J. Johnson (Baby Boy). Curry was first featured in the BET+ hit unscripted series American Gangster: Trap Queens.
From writer La Jill Hunt, the biopic is based on the real-life story of Dwen Curry, born amid the infamous Detroit riots of the late sixties, and raised during the height of the eighties crack cocaine epidemic.
The true crime drama tackles the topics of love and identity while diving into Curry’s complex life experiences as a gay celebrity stylist in Oakland who secretly financed a lavish lifestyle by fraudulently acquiring millions to build a criminal empire and survive the violent street lifestyle.
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