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Focus Features Intl. Brings Sexual Healing To Cannes: Selling Marvin Gaye Biopic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday April 26, 2013 @ 10:12am PDTTags: Cannes Wrap-Up, Focus Features International, Jesse L. Martin, Julien Temple, Marvin Gaye
Mike Fleming

Focus Features International will sell worldwide rights to the untitled biopic that Julien Temple will direct with Rent and Law & Order‘s Jesse L. Martin starring as the iconic soul singer with the sweet voice and troubled personal life. Script is by Matthew Broughton, and In Bruges‘ Brendan Gleeson will play the role of Freddy Cousaert, who met Marvin Gaye in 1981 in the Belgian fishing village of Ostend when the singer was battling everything from drug problems to the IRS. Cousaert helped the singer regain his mojo, leading to a comeback that included hits like Sexual Healing. Vicky Krieps (Hanna) also stars and Dwight Henry (the bakery owner who played Hushpuppy’s father in Beasts Of The Southern Wild) will play Gaye’s father, who silenced his son with a gunshot.

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Jesse L. Martin To Play Marvin Gaye In ‘Sexual Healing’, Replaces Lenny Kravitz

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 4, 2013 @ 10:34am PSTTags: Jesse L. Martin, Marvin Gaye, Sexual Healing
Nellie Andreeva

Marvin Gaye, Jesse L. MartinAfter years of gestation and obstacles for a slew of competing projects, a Marvin Gaye feature biopic will be made after all. I’ve learned that Jesse L. Martin will play the Motown … Read More »

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Jesse L. Martin To Star In NBC’s ‘Secret Lives Of Husbands & Wives’ Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 10, 2012 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Jesse L. Martin, NBC, The Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives
Nellie Andreeva

Jesse L Martin Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives PilotLaw & Order alum Jesse L. Martin is set to star opposite Martin Henderson in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced NBC drama pilot The Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives. … Read More »

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Jesse L. Martin Joins ‘Smash’ As Recurring

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 14, 2012 @ 10:40am PDTTags: Jesse L. Martin, Smash
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order alum Jesse L. Martin is returning to NBC with a recurring role on the network’s musical drama Smash. He will play Scott Welker, an Artistic Director of a theater company who has history with … Read More »

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