For her first non-fiction onscreen position, Aubrey Plaza is wanting ahead to delivering a portrayal befitting Heidi Fleiss.
After Deadline reported that she is going to produce and star as Fleiss in an upcoming biopic concerning the ‘Hollywood Madam’, the Golden Globe nominee expressed her pleasure to play the “final badass icon” to whom she “spiritually” relates.
“I’ve been on this observe for some time. I obtained it in my head that I needed to play her a few years in the past and I’ve by no means performed a real-life particular person earlier than,” she instructed IndieWire. “It’s a unique form of scale, problem, that I’m actually enthusiastic about, and I simply suppose she’s an unimaginable particular person, unimaginable character.”
Plaza continued, “The story is insane. She’s performed one thing that in all probability no one else has ever performed, and she or he’s nonetheless going. I feel she’s the final word badass icon and she or he deserves the royal remedy. We will give it to her.”
Though she has “not spoken” with Fleiss but, Plaza famous, “I hope to make somewhat journey to her place within the desert sooner or later. Spiritually I really feel her. I’ve heard she’s very enthusiastic about it. We’re in early levels.”
Final week, Deadline reported that Plaza is ready to provide and star in The Heidi Fleiss Story, marking the directorial debut of Leah Rachel, who co-wrote the script with Rachel Sennott and Travis Jackson. Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett will produce for Pinky Promise, alongside Plaza for Evil Hag, with manufacturing to happen in Los Angeles this 12 months after receiving a California movie and TV tax incentive.
Fleiss was arrested in 1993 for working a high-profile prostitution ring, finally being convicted of tax evasion and serving 20 months of a seven-year jail sentence. Regardless of the punishment, Fleiss has by no means revealed the names on her shopper listing.
The Heidi Fleiss Story follows Fleiss within the tense days main as much as her trial, as she navigates Los Angeles, utilizing her net of connections to attempt to manipulate and blackmail her means out of the costs, with the help of an bold younger author named Jaclyn.
