News just in that full-fledged actress Janet Jackson might play Eartha Kitt in a new biopic. “I adore her and I had the opportunity to spend time with her,” says Jackson. ”She had expressed wanting me to portray her and was excited about the idea of me portraying her in a film.”

“If that’s really going to happen, I’m not quite sure, but I hope it does,”says Jackson. ”What an icon. She had gone through so much – not just her adulthood, but her childhood.”

Let’s hope it happens.