Mariah Carey

According to the news, the R&B celebrity Mariah Carey will star in Tennessee, in which she plays a waitress who sets off with two brothers to find their estranged father, in order to help them in saving their younger brother, who has leukemia.

The drama is to be directed by Aaron Woodley (Rhinoceros Eyes) from a script by Russell Schaumberg. The film will be produced by Lee Daniels (Monster’s Ball) and shoots in New Mexico and Tennessee this spring, reports Variety. Apparently, Daniels got the idea to cast her after watching Mariah Carey’s Grammy-winning album “The Emancipation of Mimi” become the biggest selling disc of 2005.