StudioCanal and Bien ou Bien Productions released the first official image of FKA Twigs portraying Josephine Baker in a forthcoming biographical film helmed by director Maïmouna Doucouré. The photograph, unveiled at the American Film Market, depicts Twigs in a pink beaded and fringed dress, styled with Baker’s signature close-cropped waves, posed playfully atop a dining table.
The screenplay, written by Doucouré alongside Olivier Lorelle, is designed to chronicle Baker’s ascent to international prominence during the 1920s in Paris, as well as her involvement with the French Resistance and her contributions to the American civil rights movement. Born in St. Louis in 1906, Baker relocated to Paris in 1925 and established herself as a defining performer of the Jazz Age. Her later years were marked by political activism, including her participation in the 1963 March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King Jr. In 2021, she received recognition as the first Black woman inducted into France’s Panthéon.
Twigs, who won her first Grammy award earlier this year for her album Eusexua, has appeared in films including Honey Boy, The Crow, and Mother Mary. The project has received endorsement from Baker’s sons Jean-Claude Bouillon Baker and Brian Bouillon Baker, as well as from the Rainbow Tribe, the multiracial family of 12 children Baker raised at her château in southwest France. StudioCanal will manage worldwide sales and handle theatrical distribution across France, the U.K., Germany, Italy, Benelux, Poland, Australia and New Zealand. Additional production entities include CPB Films, Leyland Films, and Dingie.
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