{"id":612162,"date":"2026-07-30T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/612162\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:01:09","slug":"john-legend-cast-as-harry-belafonte-in-new-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/612162\/","title":{"rendered":"John Legend Cast as Harry Belafonte in New Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Legend<\/a> is set to play the late singer and activist Harry Belafonte<\/a> in an upcoming Bill Condon film, reports Variety<\/a>. The Road Home, which is currently in production, focuses on Hugh Masekela<\/a>, considered the father of South African jazz, and fellow legend Miriam Makeba<\/a> while the duo toured South Africa with Paul Simon during Apartheid. Thabo Rametsi will play Masekela, Cynthia Erivo will play Makeba, and Guy Pearce will play anti-Apartheid advocate Archbishop Trevor Huddleston (who famously boycotted Simon\u2019s Graceland<\/a> tour).<\/p>\n

\u201cI was honored to know Mr. Belafonte as my friend, mentor and collaborator in the struggle for justice,\u201d Legend said in a statement. \u201cHe was an incredible human being who lived a monumental, revolutionary life. He was the epitome of an artist and activist who set a standard for me and so many others who stand on his shoulders. I count it a privilege to be entrusted with the role of Harry Belafonte in this special film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Legend won an Oscar in 2015 for his Selma soundtrack single \u201cGlory.\u201d His last LP, a children\u2019s album produced by Sufjan Stevens<\/a>, dropped in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Legend is set to play the late singer and activist Harry Belafonte in an upcoming Bill Condon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,20445,5,11818,806],"class_list":["post-612162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-legend","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-web"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117010476999370298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}