Azealia Banks to make acting debut with "Coco"

Rapper Azealia Banks has landed her first starring role in an upcoming feature film, titled "Coco".
Banks will play the titular character in the film, a drama for Lionsgate and Codeblack Films that will be directed by Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, an American music producer, reported Deadline.
Banks, 23, stars with Oscar-winning composer Common, Jill Scott, Lucien Laviscount, Lorraine Toussaint and Hana Mae Lee.
It has a script from Nicole Jefferson Asher and will be produced by Paul Hall. Pic is about to get underway.
In the Brooklyn-set drama, Banks plays an aspiring 20-something rapper who wants a career in hip-hop but is torn by her parents' dreams that she finish college. She gives in.

While matriculating, she finds herself in the classroom; she experiences the true calling of the power of the spoken word, which helps her goals as a hip-hop artist. It has a bit of 8 Mile edge to it.