Watch the First Trailer of Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin in ‘Genius: Aretha’

National Geographic and Fox 21 Television studios have just released the first look teaser trailer for the upcoming anthology series Genius: Aretha, starring Academy Award nominee Cynthia Erivo as the iconic singer Aretha Franklin.

The 8-part series will premiere over four consecutive nights beginning this Memorial Day, May 25.

The trailer is brief (it is a teaser), but we do get to see Erivo in character as the Queen of Soul, and her performance looks predictably great.

As was the case with the subjects of the previous seasons of Genius, Aretha looks like it will cover the entirety of …

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