{"id":917591,"date":"2022-01-19T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/19\/zozibini-tunzi-to-star-in-the-woman-king-alongside-viola-davis-thuso-mbedu\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T10:07:06","slug":"zozibini-tunzi-to-star-in-the-woman-king-alongside-viola-davis-thuso-mbedu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/zozibini-tunzi-to-star-in-the-woman-king-alongside-viola-davis-thuso-mbedu\/","title":{"rendered":"Zozibini Tunzi to star in \u2018The Woman King\u2019 alongside Viola Davis &amp; Thuso Mbedu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bf591da9-dbe4-59e2-8903-13aee69e0ebd&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x0&#038;resize=1079x607.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Her reign as Miss Universe might have ended in May last year but that is clearly not stopping Zozibini Tunzi from world domination.<\/p>\n<p>The former Miss South Africa and longest-reigning Miss Universe will make her acting debut in the upcoming American historical epic film, \u201cThe Woman King\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Taking to Instagram this week, Zozi made the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so honoured and excited to announce that I have been cast for the film, The Woman King ( @womankingmovie). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a completely new world and first time experience for me so I enter it with the utmost respect and humility. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cForever grateful and looking forward \u2764 #TheWomanKing\u201d, she said in the post.<\/p>\n<p>See below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CY54BQFDnfb\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Written by Dana Stevens and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, \u201cThe Woman King\u201d will star Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis and South Africa\u2019s very own golden girl, Thuso Mbedu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Thuso and Zozi won\u2019t be the only familiar faces for South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Shot on location in South Africa, other familiar faces who have signed on are Masali Baduza, Seputla Sebogodi, Thando Dlomo and Makgotso Monyemorathoe. <\/p>\n<p>Grammy Award-winner Lebo M created five original songs for the film.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Last week Thuso took to social media to throw water on allegations that Makgotso M got a part in the movie because they are friends.<\/p>\n<p>This was after Makgotso proudly shared an article detailing her latest casting accomplishment. The report revealed that she had been selected for a role in the star-studded historical epic.<\/p>\n<p>While many celebrated the news with Makgotso, others suggest that she only got the part because she is good friends with Thuso.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Thuso, however, was quick to shut down the rumours.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, the star said she did not help her friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMak got a brief. She auditioned and got the role. I am very proud of umngani wami (my friend) because she deserves all that\u2019s good that the world has to offer. All credit goes to her. No ladders here,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her reign as Miss Universe might have ended in May last year but that is clearly not stopping Zozibini Tunzi from world domination. The former Miss South Africa and longest-reigning Miss Universe will make her acting debut in the upcoming American historical epic film, \u201cThe Woman King\u201d. Taking to Instagram this week, Zozi made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}