Biopics are all the rage now — Angela Davis, Richard Pryor and even RUN DMC.  Well, there is good news for Isaiah Washington — just when you thought he was about to get evicted from his apartment for  owing back rent of $20,000 a month – he has landed the role of Lou Rawls.  Rawls is a legendary R&B singer who died in 2006.  According to the Hollywood Reporter:

Pathway Entertainment has acquired the script “Through the Eyes of a Son,” described as an uncensored take on the singer written by his son Lou Rawls Jr., and will develop it as a feature, with Isaiah Washington attached to play the famed crooner.

Born in Chicago in 1933, Rawls sang in a range of styles that included blues, soul, funk and R&B, selling millions of albums and earning legions of fans, as well as the accolades of Frank Sinatra. He also, according to the script, had a traumatic life, enduring a poverty-stricken childhood and, in adulthood, intense marital strife.

Sounds good. Let’s just hope Isaiah will downgrade to cheaper rent while he is studying for this role!

No word on a release date.

TAGS: Biopics, Isaiah Washington

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