Joni Mitchell and Taylor Swift will not be friends. In a new interview, Mitchell revealed that she does not want Swift playing her in an upcoming biopic.
Sorry Swifties, the Joni Mitchell Taylor Swift movie is not happening. Last week, the legendary Joni Mitchell sat down for an interview with Sunday Times, where she explained that she has no interest in having Taylor Swift play her.
In 2012, rumors started spreading that Grammy-award winner Taylor Swift had been picked to star in a movie based on the best selling book Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller.
Girls Like Us focuses on Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon:
“Three women who dare to break tradition and become what none had been before them—confessors in song, rock superstars, and adventurers of heart and soul.”
It was being speculated at the time that Jessica Pare from Mad Men was supposed to play Simon, while Alison Pill from The Newsroom was up for the role of King. Well, none of that is happening.
Joni Mitchell slammed Taylor Swift by saying that she does not want a girl who just happen to have the same bone structure as her to appear in the film. She told The Sunday Times:
“I squelched that!.I said to the producer, ‘All you’ve got is a girl with high cheekbones.’ It’s just a lot of gossip; you don’t have the great scenes.”
The Joni Swift drama continued with the rocker adding:
“There’s a lot of nonsense about me in books, assumptions, assumptions, assumptions.”
Taylor Swift must be heartbroken by Joni Mitchell’s comments because she is a big fan. It is rumored that Taylor’s song entitled “The Lucky One,” which appeared on her fourth studio album Red in 2012 was about Mitchell.
In a recent interview with Country Living, Swift shared that her dream duet would be with either Chris Martin or Joni Mitchell, but she respects them so much that she is afraid to contact them.
