Selena Gomez is taking on an exciting new role. The singer is set to portray Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in “In the Shadow of the Mountain”, a film based on an upcoming memoir of the same name.
Vásquez-Lavado is a Peruvian-American mountain climber “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,” the Hollywood Reporter reports.
RELATED: Selena Gomez Talks With Kamala Harris About Mental Health And Why She’s Voting For The First Time Elgin James is set to write and direct the film, with Scott Budnick‘s One Community producing alongside Donna Gigliotti and her Tempesta Films production company. “Silvia is a force of