Barbra Streisand lands Gypsy role!

Singing and Acting legend Barbra Streisand heading to the big screen again! Streisand is set to star in the film adaptation of musical Gypsy — about stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

The legendary singer admits the news leaked “a little early” but she is onboard for the project.

“I am not sure about directing it. It may just be too much. I know I will be playing the part,” she said.

Arthur Laurents, who wrote The Way We Were for Streisand, let slip about the new movie project, telling the New York Post last month Streisand was in “deep in negotiations to direct, produce and star in a movie version of Gypsy” and that he wants Barbra for a role.

“She had a mother who she always thought was Mama Rose. I don’t want to get into the details, but the point is she knows,” he said. “She’s got it in her. She’s going to be much more than people expect.”

Barbra recently admitted she regrets worrying about the way she looks, as she has now grown to appreciate her “strange face”.

“Recently, doing DVDs, I’ve had to look at myself in old movies or on album covers… I thought, I really looked good there. Why didn’t I know that then?” she said.

“But I do have a strange face. It changes so much from angle to angle. Sometimes I think I really did look quite beautiful and a lot of times I looked really bad. It’s a shame. But I’m not going to cry over it. I’m trying to be in the moment, I’m enjoying my life.”

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