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"In April 2012, it was reported&amp;#xA0;that Taylor Swift&amp;#xA0;was in talks to portray folk legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Joni Mitchell&amp;#xA0;in the big-screen adaptation of Girls Like Us, a book that focuses on the impact of Mitchell, Carol King and Carly Simon. As recently as October 2012, Swift admitted&amp;#xA0;that she was still eager to play Mitchell, but the role hadn&amp;apos;t been confirmed yet. Two years later, we finally know why the film wasn&amp;apos;t officially&amp;#xA0;greenlit: Mitchell prevented the biopic from being made.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I squelched that,&amp;quot; Mitchell told The Sunday Times of the nixed biopic (via NME). &amp;quot;I said to the producer, &amp;apos;All you&amp;apos;ve got is a girl with high cheekbones.&amp;apos; It&amp;apos;s just a lot of gossip, you don&amp;apos;t have the great scenes.&amp;quot; Mitchell also said of the source material, written by Sheila Weller, &amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s a lot of nonsense about me in books. . .assumptions, assumptions, assumptions.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s actually not confirmed,&amp;quot; Swift said in October 2012 when asked if she would play Mitchell. &amp;quot;I wish I could say it&amp;apos;s confirmed! But the thing about movies that I&amp;apos;ve learned is &amp;#x2013; I&amp;apos;ve been reading scripts for five years, and you just don&amp;apos;t know what ones are going to get greenlit and which ones aren&amp;apos;t, so I can&amp;apos;t talk about it unless it&amp;apos;s the real thing.&amp;quot;\r\nThe Newsroom actress Alison Pill was also in talks to play Carole King in&amp;#xA0;Girls Like Us before Mitchell had the film blocked. John Sayles was hired as screenwriter with Kate Jacobs directing the movie.&amp;#xA0;Girls Like Us would have been the first dramatic turn for Swift, who made her big screen debut in the 2010 ensemble romantic comedy Valentine&amp;apos;s Day. The 1989 singer finally tackled drama when she appeared in the 2012 adaptation of the young adult classic The Giver."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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