Joni Mitchell blocks Taylor Swift playing her in new film

Joni Mitchell has put a halt to Taylor Swift playing her in her upcoming biopic. Mitchell does not want Swift to play Mitchell.

Swift has admitted for having an affection for Mitchell's music but Joni doesn't return the feelings. When word broke earlier this year that Swift was up for the role of Mitchell in the adaptation of the book Girls Like Us, Mitchell quickly quashed the entire project.

The book looks at music through the careers of Mitchell, Carole King and Carly Simon and plans were to bring it to the big screen. In an article in the London Sunday Times, Mitchell said "I squelched that! I said to the producer, 'All you've got is a girl with high cheekbones'. It's just a lot of gossip, you don't have the great scenes. There's a lot of nonsense about me in books: assumptions, assumptions, assum­p­tions."

She also said in the interview that she sees herself as a painter now and not a musician. "Music is over for me, pretty much. I can't sing: I don't want to. I want to paint, and I want to write. I can't tour, I can't travel, I'm sick; I can fly two flights a year. I'm old. You have to know when to give up."

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