Joni Mitchell Squashed Biopic Starring Taylor Swift

Joni Mitchell Squashed Biopic Starring Taylor Swift

Joni Mitchell Squashed Biopic Starring Taylor Swift

Joni Mitchell Squashed Biopic Starring Taylor Swift

Back in 2012, Taylor Swift was attached to star in a movie based on the 2008 book Girls Like Us, a biography that detailed the rise of Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon. Swift would have starred as Mitchell opposite a cast that could have included Mad Men’s Jessica Pare as Simon and The Newsroom’s Alison Pill as King. The film never got past the idea stage, however, and in a new interview with The Sunday Times (via NME), Joni Mitchell is taking credit for halting the film: “I squelched that! I said to the producer, ‘All you’ve got is a girl with high cheekbones.’ It’s just a lot of gossip, you don’t have the great scenes. […] There’s a lot of nonsense about me in books. Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions.”

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