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Janelle Monáe Has Her Sight Set On Playing This Superhero · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Well, a couple of years back, when
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Speaker 1: Janelle Monet was in Atlanta making her groundbreaking album Dirty Computer,
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Speaker 1: another team of talented artists were also in the city
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Speaker 1: working on what would go on to be another groundbreaking
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Speaker 1: and wildly popular project, Black Panther, and director Ryan Coogler,
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Speaker 1: Lupita Nyongo, Chadwick Boseman, and Michael B. Jordan's actually all
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Speaker 1: visited her in the studio. Flash forward with Black Panther
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Speaker 1: two in the works, and Janelle now has her hope
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Speaker 1: set on joining the cast playing one of the most
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Speaker 1: legendary X men ever Storm. No deal has been made,
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Speaker 1: but Janelle tells Empire one of my dreams has always
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Speaker 1: been to play Storm. I don't know if she is
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Speaker 1: even featured in Black Panther two, but it would be
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Speaker 1: a dream to have her in it. A lot of
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Speaker 1: women have played Storm and they've done an exceptional job,
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Speaker 1: and I would love to be in that line of artists.
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Speaker 1: I can't think of a better person to play the role.
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Speaker 1: So we're rooting for you, Janelle. That's direct from Hollywood.