Margot Robbie is the top pick to play tragic 00s bombshell Anna Nicole Smith in a film about her life – and we see the resemblance.
The biopic is being put together by two of the model and actress’s real-life friends, fashion designer Pol Atteu and TV producer Patrik Simpson.
They have written the script and now declared that the blockbuster Barbie star and producer, 34, is their number one choice for the starring role.
‘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?’ Patrik told The Sun newspaper.
Pol added: ‘I can tell you when we met her, we felt something electric and it was such a beautiful moment.’
Patrik went on to share that the pair plan to lift the lid on some of Anna’s ‘secrets’ in the new film, saying: ‘Anna was our best friend. Best friends have secrets, and we promised Anna we would reveal those secrets.’
It’s unclear if the filmmakers have formally approached Oscar-nominee Robbie yet, who also has Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights coming up, where she will play Cathy opposite Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff.
However the publication reports that Atteu and Simpson, who also host podcast Undressed With Pol And Patrik, ‘are directly negotiating with studios and agents’.
Smith shot to fame as a model, famously working for Playboy, before later turning to acting and appearing in the likes of Ally McBeal, Veronica’s Closet and Coen brothers’ film The Hudsucker Proxy, as well as her own reality sitcom The Anna Nicole Show.
She also appeared in music videos for Bryan Ferry, Kanye West and Supertramp.
Her personal life was marred by controversy after she married 89-year-old oil baron J. Howard Marshall in 1994 when she was 26.
The couple had first met when Smith was working at a strip club in Texas in 1991.
Following his death in 1995 aged 90, just over a year after they tied the knot, she became embroiled in a messy dispute with his family over his estate after accusations she had married him for his money – which she denied.
She also struggled with prescription drug addiction, dying of an accidental overdose in 2007 at the age of 39.
This came just months after her son Daniel, whom she shared with first husband and teenage sweetheart Bill Wayne Smith, also died following a drug overdose aged just 20.
The new biopic is believed to be the latest in a long line of movies about the star’s tumultuous life which are believed to be in production.
Blade Runner 2049 actress Sylvia Hoeks is playing the actress in Hurricanna alongside Holly Hunter and Mark Duplass, while Abbie Cornish will portray her in Trust Me, I’m a Doctor which focuses on Smith’s physician Dr. Sandeep Kapoor – played by Kal Penn – in the aftermath of her death.
Agnes Bruckner also previously played Anna Nicole on screen in Lifetime biopic The Anna Nicole Story, which was released in 2013.
Smith was also mother to a daughter, Dannielynn, 18, whose paternity was contested and hit the headlines in the aftermath of her mother’s death, five months after her birth.
While attorney Howard K. Stern was initially listed as her father on her Bahamian birth certificate, DNA tests later confirmed entertainment photographer Larry Birkhead was the biological father.
Birkhead previously revealed the teenager is interested in following in her mother’s footsteps by embarking on a career in showbusiness.
‘If she does anything, it will be on her terms. She’s determined to be her own person,’ Birkhead told In Touch Weekly magazine in 2021.
He went on to add that Dannielynn is aware of her late mother’s career and legacy and is proud of what she achieved as a model and actress.
Birkhead added: ‘We went into the Guess store the other day, and Dannielynn saw a big poster of Anna and said, “Oh boy, she nailed that shot.” She understands her mum was a model, and she appreciates that.’
Metro has contacted Margot Robbie’s reps for comment.
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