Selena Gomez is taking on a big new role. The 28-year-old Stars Dance singer will be playing Peruvian mountaineer and social entrepreneur Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in an upcoming biopic called In the Shadow of the Mountain, THR reported on Wednesday (November 11). PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Selena Gomez The film is “based on upcoming memoir of the same name by Vásquez-Lavado, who became the first Peruvian woman to summit Mt.
Everest and the first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits, a challenge to climb the highest mountain on each continent.” She was also a victim of childhood assault and neglect who found healing and power in mountaineering. “Vásquez-Lavado’s work in survivor circles has been heralded, particularly her