Tony Winners & BFFs Cynthia Erivo & Leslie Odom Jr. to Star in New Movie Together!
Tony-winning actors and real-life best friends Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom Jr. are set to star in the upcoming movie Needle in a Timestack!
Both of the Broadway stars won Tony Awards in 2016 – Cynthia for The Color Purple and Leslie for Hamilton – and they performed together at the Tonys in 2017. Now, almost exactly one year later, this exciting news has been announced.
Orlando Bloom and Freida Pinto are also starring in the film, which “follows a couple struggling to hold their marriage together in a world where time travel is possible, and the past and present are ever fluctuating,” according to Variety.
If you didn’t know, Cynthia is one of two godmothers for Leslie‘s daughter Lucile!
Make sure to watch Cynthia in the just-released trailer for her upcoming movie Widows, which marks her first on-screen role.
Me and @leslieodomjr in a movie together, is actually a thing that is happening.
— Cynthia Erivo (@CynthiaEriVo) June 4, 2018