{"id":1951351,"date":"2025-08-09T13:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1951351"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:10:41","slug":"celebrities-who-could-play-prince-in-stage-version-of-purple-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/celebrities-who-could-play-prince-in-stage-version-of-purple-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities who could play Prince in stage version of ‘Purple Rain’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RP:<\/b> He\u2019s pretty, yes, and he\u2019s a little tall. You would have to scale everything up to play the short king.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Janelle Monae manifests the proper prowess and regalness to portray her pal. (Victoria Will\/Invision\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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JB:<\/b> She can act, she can dance, she can sing, spectacularly all. I don\u2019t care if we don\u2019t know about her guitar prowess. She has the size, the look, the moves, the dramatic skills and the \u201cIt\u201d factor to be the Kid. And a bonus: She and Prince were pals and collaborators. She is my choice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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RP:<\/b> Ooh, she\u2019s got the look. I remember being spellbound by her performance at the Varsity in Minneapolis back in 2010. Prince was in the audience for that \u201cTightrope\u201d show. She would be electric as the Kid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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RP: He\u2019s pretty, yes, and he\u2019s a little tall. You would have to scale everything up to play the short king. Janelle Monae manifests the proper prowess and regalness to portray her pal. (Victoria Will\/Invision\/The Associated Press) JB: She can act, she can dance, she can sing, spectacularly all. I don\u2019t care if we don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1951352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Celebrities-who-could-play-Prince-in-stage-version-of-Purple.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}