Overview
- In a new Deadline Q&A, she said she would like to portray Dolly Parton and cited Eva Cassidy as another potential subject.
- She wants a role that requires playing guitar on camera, describing it as her toughest current challenge.
- She praised Parton as “one of the best human beings on the planet” and said portraying her would be fun.
- She said she once prepared for a Joni Mitchell project that fell through, while reiterating she is not involved in any Mitchell biopic and feels aged out of playing young Mitchell.
- There has been no casting announcement linking her to a Parton film, as she separately described stressful, unconventional vocal sessions for The Testament of Ann Lee recorded in Budapest.