{"id":1540,"date":"2015-05-07T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2016-06-15T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T18:49:08","slug":"queen-latifah-takes-on-the-role-of-empress-of-the-blues-as-betsie-smith-for-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/actors\/queen-latifah-takes-on-the-role-of-empress-of-the-blues-as-betsie-smith-for-hbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Latifah Embodies Bessie Smith in HBO&#8217;s Empress of the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Queen Latifah Embodies Bessie Smith in HBO&#8217;s Empress of the Blues<a href=\"http:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/james_hickey_queen_latifah_2.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/james_hickey_queen_latifah_3-copy.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/james_hickey_queen_latifah_cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1543\" src=\"http:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/james_hickey_queen_latifah_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Latifah Cover by James Hickey\" width=\"752\" height=\"908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/james_hickey_queen_latifah_cover.jpg 752w, https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/james_hickey_queen_latifah_cover-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/james_hickey_queen_latifah_cover-500x604.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/james_hickey_queen_latifah_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1541\" src=\"http:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/james_hickey_queen_latifah_2.jpg\" alt=\"Queen Latifah photograph by James Hickey\" width=\"1484\" height=\"886\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backstage.com\/interview\/why-queen-latifah-waited-20-years-bessie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tim Grierson interviews\u00a0Queen Latifah<\/a>\u00a0for Backstage Magazine on her role in HBO&#8217;s Empress of the Blues, the story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and &#8217;30s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Latifah Embodies Bessie Smith in HBO&#8217;s Empress of the Blues Tim Grierson interviews\u00a0Queen Latifah\u00a0for Backstage Magazine on her role in HBO&#8217;s Empress of the Blues, the story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and &#8217;30s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[133,369,353,22,39,351,295],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actors","tag-backstage-magazine","tag-bessie-smith","tag-hbo","tag-james-hickey","tag-los-angeles-fashion-photographer","tag-queen-latifah","tag-tim-grierson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jameshickeystudio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}