If there’s someone who’s aware of a element or approximately the excessive-glamour life of tune superstars, it’s Tracee Ellis Ross. The Golden Globe-prevailing, three-time Emmy-nominated actress is excellent identified for her roles in comedy indicates like Black-ish, Mixed-ish, and Girlfriends (and her always extremely good purple carpet fashion), but she moreover takes region to be the daughter of the enduring songstress Diana Ross. But in the trailer for the latest comedy The High Note, it’s Tracee herself who’s taking center degree and displaying off her dulcet musical stylings as Grace Davis, a legendary singer stuck in a profession rut till an ambitious aspiring manufacturer evokes her to take her profession to the following degree.
Dakota Johnson stars as Maggie, Grace’s overworked private assistant with aspirations of manufacturing music, and while Grace grows bored with making a music her antique hits, the 2 embark on a challenge to assist her launch her first new album as a long time. The movie comes from director Nisha Ganatra, who directed final twelve months’s pleasant comedy Late Night, which starred Emma Thompson as a communicate display host with an antique everyday and Mindy Kaling as a nascent creator who allows her attain new audiences, and also you don’t need to gain too a long manner to see the similarities among the recollections of hooked up business enterprise legends and the ambitious upstarts who assist them reboot their careers. If she could be capable of recapture the appeal of that movie, she’s headed for every other win with The High Note, and thinking about how high-quality the gang reaction turned into to the trailer in my The Invisible Man showtime final night time, this may definitely be a crowd-alluring hit.
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However, even in case you would possibly see a few surface similarities between Tracee Ellis Ross’ character and her mother’s legendary career, she didn’t take quite some concept from her real life. “In all honesty, none of that is taken from the arena I understand of being my mother’s baby,” she cautioned EW. “The most effective factor is that I constantly had the dream of being able to sing. But this character changed into so highly and wonderfully written, and the tale virtually has nothing to do with any of the matters that I understand from my mother’s enjoy. Except for the reality that there’s a real humanity to this girl and she’s not a paper-skinny quote-unquote diva that the arena usually paints larger-than-lifestyles women as. She’s a actual individual.”
She continued, “That’s the only connection that I can draw. That a lady who holds a excellent place inside the international is definitely a human with a coronary coronary heart, who has fears and disappointments and struggles all on her own.”
The High Note also stars Ice Cube, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Zoe Chao, Eddie Izzard, Bill Pullman, and… checks notes… Diplo and arrives in theaters on Friday, May 8.
Here’s the official synopsis for The High Note:
Set in the dazzling world of the LA music scene comes the story of Grace Davis (Tracee Ellis Ross), a superstar whose talent, and ego, have reached unbelievable heights. Maggie (Dakota Johnson) is Grace’s overworked personal assistant who’s stuck running errands, but still aspires to her childhood dream of becoming a music producer. When Grace’s manager (Ice Cube) presents her with a choice that could alter the course of her career, Maggie and Grace come up with a plan that could change their lives forever.