Queen Latifah stepped into Deadline’s studio at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and gave Deadline the low-down on the upcoming project about her life, and playing Robyn McCall in The Equalizer .

Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment is a producer on the biopic, which will be one of several about hip-hop’s most iconic stars. “We’ve partnered up to work with Westbrook [Studios] and Jesse Collins Entertainment…we figured we would create these. I’m going to be one of the first to do it. Will [Smith] is going to do his as well, and he’s also integral in my story.”

The big question for Queen Latifah was, who will play her? “This is going to be big casting,” she said. “I’ve been doing this since I was 17-years-old, but there was the lead up to it, so so

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