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Zendaya is producing and starring in a movie called “A White Lie” it’s a psychological thriller about a woman named Anitta Hemmings who was the first African-American woman to graduate from Vassar College.

Anitta was a descendant of slaves and passed as a white woman so she could attend Vassar during the 1890s. She’s pulled into the elite world, where she’s treated as a wealthy, educated white woman who finds romance with a moneyed Harvard student.

Sony Pictures bought the rights to the film back in 2018.