Lenny Kravitz has been cast to play Marvin Gaye in a film about the last years of the Motown singer’s life, The Evening Standard reports.
The project is directed by Julian Temple, The Gaye movie will center on the soul singer’s later years while he lived in London from 1981. During that he was suffering from an addiction to alcohol and an allergy to the taxman, and how he was rescued by music promoter Freddy Cousaert and spirited away to his flat in Ostend, Belgium, to recover.
This would be the first lead role that Kratitz has landed.
