Legendary singer Dionne Warwick is interested in bringing her life to the small screen, and she is so down for Teyana Taylor to play the role.
On Wednesday, the 80-year-old singer, who recently gained the youth’s attention as an avid tweeter, pitched a video to Netflix with the idea of who she would like to see play her in a hypothetical series.
She captioned the video, “this is a case for @netflix.” She said, “Please don’t ask who I would cast to play me as it would obviously be @TEYANATAYLOR.” Of course, Taylor, who recently said she was “retiring” from music,” responded back “🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾.”
Netflix’s Twitter account was quick to slide into Warwick’s replies, writing “taking ✍️ notes ✍️..” Warwick replied, “I’ll call ya!”
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 https://t.co/kvMbriSaPJ
— TEYANA M.J. SHUMPERT (@TEYANATAYLOR) December 16, 2020
The post comes just days after she shared a photo of Taylor with the caption, “It runs in the family.” Taylor quote tweeted it, writing “Period. 🤎”
The two aren’t actually related, but this isn’t the first time Warwick spoke on herself and Taylor’s visual similarities.
Last January, a fan tweeted, “Y’all ever noticed that Teyana Taylor looks like Dionne Warwick?” Warwick retweeted it and tagged Taylor.
And in July 2019, Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown also referred to the lookalikes in a tweet.
He said, “Seriously some networks need to make the @_DionneWarwick biopic & cast @TEYANATAYLOR to play her. Tell me y’all don’t see it!”
The post on the hypothetical series comes just a few days after Saturday Night Live did a sketch referring to her latest drama with Wendy Williams after the talk show host brought up an old marijuana charge and her newfound fame on Twitter.
Cast member Ego Nwodim played the singer in the “Dionne Warwick Talk Show” sketch, whose conversations with her guests often seemed to loop back to Williams.
“One last question Harry Styles,” she says in the sketch. “Why is Wendy Williams being a bitch to me? She started beefing and now she’s acting like she can’t finish.”
“I’m sorry, I don’t know who Wendy Williams is,” answered the singer, who was played in the sketch by SNL host Timothée Chalamet, to which Warwick replied, “Yeah, I knew I liked your ass.”
