Actor Zendaya will star in the film A White Lie, about Vassar College’s first Black graduate, Anita Hemmings.

The Spider-Man: Homecoming star will portray the role of Hemmings in the film, which she will produce along with actor Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter, reported Variety.

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An official adaptation of the Karin Tanabe’s book The Gilded Years, the story is about Hemmings, who passed as white until just a few short weeks before graduation, when her roommate began digging into her past.

The script of the film will be penned by Monica Beletsky.