Her tweet came a day after talk show shared its February interview with Parton on Facebook. In it, the "Here You Come Again" singer had been asked if she'd made any progress on a project about her life. Parton answered that she had been working on a Broadway musical, then COVID happened, which changed her mind on how to tell her story.

"I do intend someday to be on Broadway, but I'm thinking now that I might do my life story as a feature, and maybe, possibly even, a musical feature," she said. "And so I'm… we're in talks about that."

Parton was then asked whether she had someone in mind to star.

"No, not now, because it depends on when I get it done. Most of 'em age out," she said. "I've been wanting to do this for years, and the people that I thought would… cause I have to have at least two, well, three Dollys, really. I have to have a little Dolly, we have to have the medium one and, now that I've lived long enough to be older, I might play myself as my older self. I don't know. Anyhow, but there's many ways to do it."

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However, in a December 2020 interview with , Parton was receptive when Chenoweth was suggested as the right fit.

"I love Kristin Chenoweth. She's just absolutely fantastic," Parton said. "Years and years ago, when I was going to do the Broadway musical — I never can get it to how I want it, but I'm still working on it. But I thought she'd be an ideal person to do that."