BARBIE’s Margot Robbie is lined up to star as Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith in a film about her life.
The movie is being created by Anna’s close pals, fashion designer Pol’ Atteu and TV producer Patrik Simpson – stars of Prime Video’s Gown And Out In Beverly Hills.
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And Oscar-nominated Margot, 34, is the only name in the frame for the lead role.
Patrik said: “We are eyeing Margot and I think she is our Anna Nicole.”
“After we saw the Barbie movie, Margot was at the screening and I said, ‘That’s our Anna.’
“The way she embodied Barbie, and Pol used to always tease that Anna was the living Barbie. So who better to play her than Margot?”
Pol added: “I can tell you when we met her, we felt something electric and it was such a beautiful moment.”
The pair heard first-hand the stories of Anna’s turbulent life.
The pair, who also host podcast Undressed With Pol And Patrik, have already written a script and are directly negotiating with studios and agents.
Speaking at the Charmaine Blake Academy Award celebration gala in Beverly Hills, Patrik said: “Anna was our best friend. Best friends have secrets and we promised Anna we would reveal those secrets.”
Anna Nicole appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine in 1992 and was named Playmate of the Year in 1993.
At 26 she married 89-year-old oil baron J. Howard Marshall, insisting she was not with him for the money.
But after his death she became embroiled in a decades-long legal battle after learning she was not included in his will.
She was later forced to file for bankruptcy.
In 2006, her son died aged 20 of an accidental drugs overdose.
She also had an addiction to prescription painkillers and died of an accidental overdose in 2007, aged 39.
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