Selena Gomez Confirmed To Star Linda Ronstadt Biopic Directed By David O. Russell
In 2019, Linda Ronstadt was the subject of a documentary, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice. Now she’s getting the biopic treatment too, with a fellow Number Ones artist lined up to portray her on screen.
Selena Gomez will play Ronstadt in a feature film about the country-rocker’s life, Rolling Stone reports. It’s being directed by David O. Russell and co-produced by James Keach and Ronstadt’s manager, John Boylan.
The casting had been rumored for a while and fans began speculating more today after Gomez posted an Instagram story of herself reading Ronstadt’s 2013 memoir Simple Dreams. Ronstadt and Gomez are both Mexican-American, and there’s definitely enough resemblance between them for the casting to make sense. Gomez recently told the SmartLess podcast that she wants to focus on acting and her other ventures after releasing one last album. Her most recent single, “Single Soon,” dropped in August.