Reese Witherspoon and Zendaya are joining forces for a new movie called A White Lie!The 41-year-old Big Little Lies star and the 21-year-old Spider‑Man: Homecoming actress will both be producing the thriller via Reese‘s production company Hello Sunshine, Variety reports.
Zendaya will also star in the film, playing the first African-American woman to graduate from Vassar College.
The movie is based on Karin Tanabe’s book “The Gilded Years,” which tells “the true story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned, African-American woman who was the descendant of slaves and passed as white so she could attend Vassar during the 1890s. She’s pulled into her elite world where she’s treated as a wealthy, educated white woman who finds romance with a moneyed Harvard student.”
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