{"id":12550,"date":"2021-08-13T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T22:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2021-08-13T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T22:24:08","slug":"the-queen-of-soul-is-in-cinemas-tomorrow-13-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2021\/08\/13\/the-queen-of-soul-is-in-cinemas-tomorrow-13-august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of Soul Is In Cinemas Tomorrow, 13 August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>\u201cBe your own artist, and always be confident in what you&#8217;re doing. If you&#8217;re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Aretha Franklin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the rise of Aretha Franklin\u2019s career from a young child singing in her father\u2019s church\u2019s choir to her international superstardom, &#8220;Respect&#8221; is the remarkable true story of the music icon\u2019s journey to find her voice and become the Queen of Soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DIRECTOR:<br \/>South African born, Liesl Tommy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CAST:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin<\/li><li>Forest Whitaker as C.L. Franklin<\/li><li>Marlon Wayans as Ted White<\/li><li>Audra McDonald as Barbara Franklin<\/li><li>Tituss Burgess as Reverend Dr. James Cleveland<\/li><li>Marc Maron as Jerry Wexler<\/li><li>Kimberly Scott as Mama Franklin<\/li><li>Saycon Sengbloh as Erma Franklin<\/li><li>Hailey Kilgore as Carolyn Franklin<\/li><li>Heather Headley as Clara Ward<\/li><li>Skye Dakota Turner as Young Aretha Franklin<\/li><li>Tate Donovan as John Hammond<\/li><li>And Mary J. Blige as Dinah Washington<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"To become the Queen, she needed to find her voice. #RESPECT Official Trailer!\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uiz-TqERox4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBe your own artist, and always be confident in what you&#8217;re doing. If you&#8217;re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.\u201d \u2014 Aretha Franklin Following the rise of Aretha Franklin\u2019s career from a young child singing in her father\u2019s church\u2019s choir to her international superstardom, &#8220;Respect&#8221; is the remarkable&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2021\/08\/13\/the-queen-of-soul-is-in-cinemas-tomorrow-13-august-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Queen of Soul Is In Cinemas Tomorrow, 13 August 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}