Janelle Monae attends LA Antebellum rooftop drive-in premiere

Singer and actor Janelle Monae takes on the leading lady role for the first time in a psychological thriller about a Black woman who finds herself trapped in a pre-abolition past for Antebellum. Transforming the rooftop of a Los Angeles mall parking lot, cars lined up September 14, 2020, for the official movie premiere during this pandemic's new normal. On the special moment of her life, Janelle said she is honoured to play successful Black book author Veronica Henley, who is on a quest to destroy the vestiges of American slavery.