Actor and comedian Tiffany Haddish will portray Olympic champion Florence Griffith Joyner, perhaps better known as Flo-Jo, in an upcoming biopic.
Haddish, an Emmy winner for her performance hosting “Saturday Night Live,” said in a release that Griffith Joyner was a childhood idol of hers.
“I am looking forward to telling Flo-Jo’s story the way it should be told,” Haddish said, according to Dateline. “My goal with this film is making sure that younger generations know my ‘she-ro’ Flo-Jo, the fastest woman in the world to this day, existed.”
Griffith Joyner won five Olympic medals and two world championship medals in the 1980s, also setting world records in the 100- and 200-meter in 1988 that still stand today.