Selena Gomez Will Play a Legendary Singer in a Forthcoming Biopic

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is named after one legendary singer-songwriter—Selena Quintanilla—and she's about to embody another: Linda Ronstadt, whom she will play in an upcoming biopic.The movie is still in preproduction, reports , and no other cast details have been made public.

All we know is that Ronstadt's manager, John Boylan, and James Keach (who previously produced a 2019 documentary about Ronstadt) are coproducing. (Per , Keach is also producing an upcoming biopic of Glen Campbell starring Tim McGraw, so maybe he's cornering the singer-as-other-singer market.)Linda Ronstadt at the 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors in 2019Gomez seemed to announce the news in her own way on Instagram Stories, posting a picture of Ronstadt's memoir, Simple Dreams.Online, fans immediately the between Selena Gomez and Linda Ronstadt, who both have Mexican heritage.Linda Ronstadt during a performance with the Stone Poneys at Palo Verdo High School in Tucson on May 8, 1968Ronstadt recorded rock, country, folk, and Latin music during her career and won 11 Grammy Awards.

Now 77, the music icon retired from singing in 2011 due to vocal decline and health issues. In 2016 she was given a lifetime achievement award from the Grammys and in 2019 was awarded a Kennedy Center honor.Now, onto the question on everyone's mind: Is there a role in here for Taylor Swift?

Well, maybe a cameo as a young Emmylou Harris. In 2013, Ronstadt looked back on their friendship during a conversation on , reflecting, “Having a singing sister like Emmylou Harris—what a gift in my life.