Aussie actress to play Anna Nicole Smith in biopic

Australian histrion Abbie Cornish has slipped into the precise celebrated shoes of Anna Nicole Smith, playing the precocious Playboy Playmate successful the upcoming diagnostic film, Trust Me, I’m A Doctor.

Cornish, who grew up successful the Hunter Region of NSW, gave viewers a archetypal look of her successful quality arsenic she filmed successful Toronto connected May 2.

In the scene, the 41-year-old recreated Smith’s quality astatine the 2005 Pride Parade successful West Hollywood, California – implicit with a metallic cut-out formal and coloured beads.

“Playing Anna Nicole Smith is specified a dream,” she said successful a connection via Deadline this week, erstwhile the movie was announced.

“I americium honoured to person been chosen by our astonishing producers and talented writer/director, Thane Economou. And I americium truthful excited to enactment with our unthinkable formed and crew. I americium blessed to basal alongside the charismatic and talented [co-star] Kal Penn and archer the communicative of this infinitesimal successful history.

“There are truthful galore layers and chapters to Anna’s beingness communicative that I look guardant to embodying connected surface with each of my bosom and soul. Truly grateful.”

Trust Me, I’m a Doctor is based connected the memoir of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, a LA-based doc who was implicated successful the decease of Smith from an accidental overdose successful 2007, aged conscionable 39.

The movie is acceptable successful the aboriginal 2000s astatine the tallness of Smith’s fame and mag tabloid culture, and it is told done the position of Dr. Kapoor (played by Penn), who recovered himself successful the spotlight pursuing her death.

Dr Kapoor aesculapian vocation came to a standstill successful 2009 erstwhile helium and Smith’s psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, were charged for allegedly providing excessive medicine drugs to the erstwhile model.

However, a assemblage acquitted the brace successful 2010 due to the fact that determination wasn’t capable grounds to convict.

Joining Cornish successful the movie is The Terminator actress Linda Hamilton, who volition play Dr. Kapoor’s lawyer Ellyn Garafalo, and Penn, who is champion known for his relation in Harold & Kumar.

“We each cognize the tragic communicative of the iconic Anna Nicole Smith, but precise fewer of america – myself included – knew overmuch astir her young doctor: flamboyant, aged school, blurring the lines betwixt diligent and acquaintance, and yet arrested and charged pursuing her death,” Penn said successful a connection to Deadline.

“It’s a chaotic communicative brought to beingness successful an particularly tremendous script.”