It starred Academy Award winners Forest Whitaker and Jennifer Hudson, as well as Academy Award nominee Angela Bassett. Lemmons is also attached to direct the Apartheid-set drama Agaat, based on Marlene van Niekerk's novel, in addition to an adaptation of Zadie Smith's best-selling novel On Beauty. Lemmons explained during an interview that _she_ considered writing to be central to her task as a director: <sep>, Pronoun: she <sep>, A: Marlene van Niekerk <sep>, B: Zadie Smith