11 Spot-On Or Hella Random Recommendations For Women To Play Aaliyah

Keshia Chante

The current co-host of BET’s 106 & Park was, for years, supposed to play Aaliyah in a movie about the singer’s life and was supposed to be directed by Dreamgirls director, Bill Condon. She said this in 2012 about why the movie had stalled:

“…there are people trying to create a movie and Aaliyah’s family are still mourning her loss and aren’t ready to share her story and create a film. So there’s a bit of back and forth thing with her family and with creative people. And I know that they would bless a movie being created, they’re just not 100 percent comfortable and unfortunately from my understanding they don’t have complete control of her estate. So a movie could technically be made without them green lighting it and I kind of think that’s unfortunate. So I want her family to be on board and to be happy with it. It’s still kind of lingering in the air.”

Her name was brought up as someone who should play Aaliyah in the Lifetime biopic (“The ONLY person I want to see playing Aaliyah, is Keshia Chanté! Anyone else, I’M NOT HERE FOR IT!”). She does bear a little bit of a resemblance to the singer, right?