Kerry Washington Joins Ryan Murphy’s Netflix Film ‘The Prom’

The solid for Ryan Murphy’s first Netflix movie “The Prom” continues to fill out as Kerry Washington has joined a loaded solid that features Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Ariana Grande, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key and Andrew Rannells.

Streep will play Dee Dee Allen, a two-time Tony winner who companions with Barry Glickman (Corden) in a musical about Eleanor Roosevelt that seems to be a flop. After disastrous opinions, the pair groups with fellow Broadway vets Angie Dickinson (Kidman) and Trent Oliver (Rannells) to discover a trigger to get behind as a way to revive their careers. They find yourself rallying round Emma, an Indiana teenager who’s banned from attending her highschool promenade together with her girlfriend, Alyssa.

Washington, whose function has not but been disclosed, can also be set to star within the Lionsgate motion movie “Shadow Force” alongside Sterling Ok. Brown and can seem within the Netflix movie “American Son,” which premiered at Toronto final month and shall be launched in November.

Washington is repped by CAA, Washington Square Arts and Gretchen Rush. The signing was first reported by Deadline.

Ryan Murphy at the moment has a collection — the dramedy “The Politician” — on Netflix. Other initiatives the prolific producer has with lined up with the streamer embody a collection about Old Hollywood, a collection adaptation of “A Chorus Line, “a “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” prequel “Ratched” starring Sarah Paulson, a Marlene Dietrich mission starring Jessica Lange, amongst many others.