Kristin Chenoweth could be very into the concept of taking part in nation music icon Dolly Parton.
On Thursday, she retweeted the hyperlink to a narrative about Parton wanting her to painting her. “I am prepared Dolly,” she wrote.
Her tweet got here a day after discuss present Mr. Nashville Talks shared its February interview with Parton on Fb. In it, the “Right here You Come Once more” singer had been requested if she’d made any progress on a venture about her life. Parton answered that she had been engaged on a Broadway musical, then COVID occurred, which modified her thoughts on the way to inform her story.
“I do intend sometime to be on Broadway, however I am pondering now that I’d do my life story as a characteristic, and possibly, presumably even, a musical characteristic,” she stated. “And so I am… we’re in talks about that.”
Parton was then requested whether or not she had somebody in thoughts to star.
“No, not now, as a result of it is determined by once I get it finished. Most of ’em age out,” she stated. “I have been wanting to do that for years, and the those who I assumed would… trigger I’ve to have not less than two, properly, three Dollys, actually. I’ve to have somewhat Dolly, we’ve to have the medium one and, now that I’ve lived lengthy sufficient to be older, I’d play myself as my older self. I do not know. Anyhow, however there’s some ways to do it.”
Nevertheless, in a December 2020 interview with Marie Claire, Parton was receptive when Chenoweth was recommended as the suitable match.
“I really like Kristin Chenoweth. She’s simply completely unbelievable,” Parton stated. “Years and years in the past, once I was going to do the Broadway musical — I by no means can get it to how I need it, however I am nonetheless engaged on it. However I assumed she’d be a super individual to do this.”
Chenoweth is a Tony Award winner with greater than 20 years of expertise on the stage and in TV and movie.
And she or he’s an enormous fan of Parton.
“I used to be raised on nation music and gospel music,” Chenoweth instructed NPR in September 2019. “There’s one thing about Dolly that — properly, for everyone; not simply me — that I’ve linked with. And once I first met her many, a few years in the past, she stated, you are me and — I am such as you, and you are like me.”
Chenoweth was doing that interview to advertise her 2019 album For the Women, which featured covers of songs from girls she admired. Parton’s “I Will At all times Love You” was considered one of them, and the singer herself joined her on the monitor. It was emotional for Chenoweth to listen to it.
“After I heard it, I did the ugly cry,” she stated. “I used to be in Atlanta, on set, and I am bawling — bawling.”
In December 2021, she confirmed on The Kelly Clarkson Present that she nonetheless needed the gig. She joked that she was solely “missing a pair issues,” earlier than doing an unbelievable impression of her idol.
