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Jennifer Greydoes a total transformation to play cult leader Gwen Shamblin.
On Monday, the 62-year-oldDirty Dancingstar shareda first lookat Lifetime’sGwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvationon Instagram.
“call me gwen#starvingforsalvation#gwenshamblin@lifetime,” she wrote alongside a photo of her with long blonde hair and smokey eye makeup while crediting her hairstylist Lyne Lapiana and Wig Maker Associates founder Rob Pickens.
In November, Greysigned onto play the controversial religious leader inGwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation, according to Deadline.
The film comes after the success of HBO docuseriesThe Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblinchronicled the rise and fall of Shamblin, who founded a wildly popular Christian diet program and later, the Remnant Fellowship Church in Tennessee.
In addition to Grey’s Lifetime movie,Sarah Paulsonis also set to play Shamblin in a scripted version ofThe Way Down: God, Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin, Deadline reports.
Jennifer Grey.Rob Kim/Getty
Grey “returns to Kellerman’s in the next chapter,” it was revealed at CinemaCon in April.
The announcement came during Lionsgate’s presentation at the convention, in which a voiceover teased Grey’s return over footage from the original film,Entertainment Weeklyreported.
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey inDirty Dancing(1987).Snap/Shutterstock
Grey opened up aboutmaking the sequelto PEOPLE in April.
“It was lightning in a bottle, it’s like this thing happened, and it’s so beautiful, and I can’t explain it. No one can explain it,” she shared. We’re working on this sequel, I’m working on it with Lionsgate and working on the script."
“We’ve been working on it for a couple of years. And I know in my heart, I would love to give fans or a young, new audience an experience that would never replicate that, but has the same kind of underpinnings,” she continued. “Today people think that their identity is limited, the world has told them what it is. But there are certain people who can see other parts of you.”
“Dirty Dancing was a fairytale, a successful movie and formula, using dance as a metaphor for embodying your energy and getting out of your head, and your limiting belief systems.”
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Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvationpremieres on Lifetime on February 4, 2023.
source: people.com
