Millennials are set to make a journey down reminiscence lane as famed TV hotline psychic Miss Cleo is ready to be the topic of documentary, Deadline reported.
Leisure studio XTR and manufacturing firm Majority have teamed up with the movie’s award-winning director, Senain Kheshgi, to inform the complete story of Miss Cleo’s controversial pay-per-call tarot studying service that got here crashing down following a billion-dollar fraud investigation.
Miss Cleo’s ads had been seen on tv screens throughout the nation in the course of the ’90s and early 2000s. The famed fortune teller posed herself as a Jamaican shaman however was truly an Los Angeles native named Youree Dell Harris.
The generally actress and playwright was reportedly employed to tackle the function of the gifted psychic that lured individuals to “Name me now for ya free studying!”
“Claiming to be a shaman from Jamaica, Miss Cleo’s charisma and well-known imperatives enabled the Psychic Readers Community, a pay-per-call service, to cost callers in search of solutions over $1 billion for recommendation,” XTR mentioned.
“However in 2002 all of it got here crashing down when the Federal Commerce Fee accused the community and its homeowners of misleading promoting, billing, and assortment practices, bringing Miss Cleo’s reign as queen of clairvoyance to a dramatic finish.”
Whereas the famed psychic handed away from most cancers in 2016 on the age of 53, Kheshgi has been interviewing “topics all through Miss Cleo’s previous” for the documentary.
“Youree Harris might have been an confederate or maybe a sufferer within the Psychic Reader’s Community fraud however she additionally had expertise and character, which for ladies doesn’t at all times translate into entry or wealth,” Kheshgi mentioned.
“Her story is an instance of how brown and Black ladies have traditionally been marginalized and exotified in society and well-liked tradition. The enduring picture of the darkish, mystical lady nonetheless continues to perpetuate this stereotype.
“As a lady of colour and a director who needs to discover tales from numerous views, I’m moved by how Youree discovered a option to navigate her life on her personal phrases.”
An official launch date for the movie is unknown as manufacturing continues.
