- FADING GIGOLO
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| Woody Allen |
Coming off a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for last year’s
Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen is gearing up to star in a movie that he won’t
direct.
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| The Beautiful Sofia Vergara |
Variety reports that Allen is set to join John Turturro’s
indie comedy Fading Gigolo. Turturro wrote and will direct the project, which
finds Turturro and Allen “playing cash-strapped best friends who decide to go
into the gigolo business together and subsequently attract the suspicion of the
hasidic Jewish community in which they live.” Allen pimps out Turturro’s character
who falls for a Jewish widow. It’s a pretty outlandish premise, but it’s not
hard to see why Allen signed on. The guy has an impeccable sense of humor and
pairing him with Turturro seems like a perfect match.
Sofia Vergara is also in talks to take a supporting role in
the film alongside Sharon Stone, with the two playing customers of Turturro and
Allen’s gigolo business. Allen hasn’t acted in a film he didn’t direct since
2000’s Picking Up the Pieces, but he stars this summer in his latest film as a
writer-director, Nero Fiddled.
Production on Fading Gigolo is set to begin this April in
New York.
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