Teyana Taylor has spoken to Dionne Warwick about playing it on the small screen and she is on board

She expressed interest in playing the famous singer (and Twitter consciousness) Dionne Warwick on social media.

And now Teyana Taylor and the legendary speaker are getting even closer to a full-fledged collaboration after talking together on the phone about the potential of a biopic TV series.

After announcing that she wanted Taylor, 30, to play her, Warwick called a member of her publicity team to contact, TMZ reported Sunday.

Taylor spoke to the 80-year-old hit player and confirmed his desire to play Warwick at the height of his fame.

It wouldn’t just be a recruitment gun, as Taylor expressed interest in making the series through her production company, The Aunties Production.

Warwick has been in contact with her son Damon Elliot, a record producer who has worked with her and several pop artists, and they both appear to be on board with Taylor in the series. biopic.

Although best known for her singing course, Taylor has expanded into acting in the past decade, although she has had small roles in mini-budget indie films.

However, she will be undertaking one of her most acclaimed projects to date with the upcoming Eddie Murphy sequel Coming 2 America, which will be released digitally on Amazon Prime on March 5, 2021.

Warwick’s interest in a new series comes after she became one of the most popular new users on Twitter by sharing her unchanging and often hilarious comments.

The singer and actress shared a new video with her 355K fans, asking her fans if she would, ‘did you do a series, would you really watch? ‘

At the time, she already knew she wanted Taylor, with both herself and Netflix streaming service showing interest.

Warwick took to Twitter Wednesday afternoon to share the video, adding the tweet, ‘This is a case for @Netflix. Don’t ask who I would play as it would obviously be @TEYANATAYLOR. ‘

Taylor responded by raising awareness of Warwick, responding with several ‘raising hands’ emojis in praise.

Netflix commented, literally, tweeting, ‘Taking notes’ in response to Warwick’s tweet, which responded back, ‘I’ll tell you! ‘

It remains to be seen how bad Netflix is ​​about the idea of ​​a series, but Warwick still had some success in using Twitter to collaborate with Chance the Rapper.

She made headlines earlier this month when she tweeted at Chance (the real name of Chancellor Jonathan Bennett), 27, asking why he put ‘the Rapper’ in his stage name.

She said his new song Holy with Justin Bieber is one of her favorite songs right now.

Chance replied, ‘I’m sorry I’m still raining out that you know who I am. This is amazing! adds another tweet, ‘I’ll be whatever you want me all Ms Warwick. May God bless you. ‘

Warwick replied, ‘Of course I know you. You are THE rapper. Let’s go together. I will send you a message, ‘which seems to be leading to this collaboration.

That Twitter exchange led to a real collaboration for a song called Nothing’s Impossible, written by Warwick’s son Damon Elliott, with portions of the song’s money going to charity.

Elliot, 47, who has made records for Destiny’s Child, P! Nk, Mya, Christina Aguilera and more, issued a statement telling him and his mother, ‘I had a minute to talk to Chance’ after the Twitter exchange.

They said the single will be recorded soon, with portions of the money going to the Hunger Not Impossible campaign.

Warwick’s tweets come just days after Taylor announced her retirement from music.

She would then make it clear that she doesn’t really want to retire, she just wants to be released from her label, GOOD Music / Def Jam.

‘Baby, I have to do it for my mental health. I have to do it for my emotional health. I must do it for my children, so that I can live for my children. Until I am free, until I get [Def Jam] for my release, yes, I want to retire, ‘clarified Taylor.