What Happened, Miss Simone?

I watched the documentary What Happened, Miss Simone over the weekend about the life of singer Nina Simone and it was fascinating. I didn't really know much about Nina Simone and her heyday was before my time, but that didn't make the documentary any less interesting. She was, like many performers, someone who just got on the hamster wheel and couldn't get off. Once she started making some money and gaining a following, people were dependent on her to continue and build on her success. Her personal health (mainly her mental health) was suffering as she was pushed to get out on stage and perform. Then you add the Civil Rights movement into the mix and Simone just started to unravel. I wonder if the Zoe Saldana Nina Simone movie will ever see the light of day given all of the negative publicity surrounding it. The studio may just quietly release it to video/streaming/On Demand and be done with it. It amazes me that in this day and age someone had the bright idea to cast a fairly light-skinned black Latina to play Simone. A lot of the struggles Nina Simone sang and talked about had to do with her blackness. She was not a light-skinned woman and she did not have white features, as Saldana does. What's even worse is that someone felt the need to blacken Saldana's face and put a prosthetic nose on her to make her look more like Nina Simone for that film version. Why not just let her play Simone without the cosmetic changes?