Anna Faris gives Deep Throat; set to star in biopic of porn star Linda Lovelace

September 19, 2007 | Filed Under Anna Faris

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anna faris set to star in linda lovelace biopic

The delicious 30-year-old Anna Faris has announced that she’s taking a break from frat-boy comedy to star in a “deep, dark drama” biopic about Linda Lovelace, the 70s porn star that brought porn films into the mainstream. From MTV:

“There’s a project about Linda Lovelace, the porn star, that we’re really hoping to put together soon,” Faris said of a dramatic biopic that will cast her as the infamous “Deep Throat” actress who dragged the X-rated movie into mainstream culture. “It’s a really deep, dark drama — and it would be cool for me to do.”

The affable 30-year-old beauty hopes to get cameras rolling on the film with enough time to finish it before the impending writers’ strike in June, she and has targeted the subject of the 2005 documentary hit “Inside Deep Throat” for her most dramatic role yet. For those who aren’t versed in filthy ’70s cinema, Lovelace was the stage name Linda Susan Boreman adopted before starring in “Throat,” the 1972 flick about a frustrated woman exploring (and exploring, and exploring again) her sexuality.

“It’s called ‘Inferno,’ ” Faris said of the film, which she is currently putting together alongside a first-time filmmaker. She said other stars haven’t been cast yet but that director Matthew Wilder will helm the flick.

Lovelace became a household name after “Deep Throat” became a pop-culture phenomenon that had stars like Johnny Carson and Jack Nicholson attending showings. Porn became chic, and the film has to date grossed more than $600 million worldwide (some believe it is still be the most profitable movie ever made).

In the years that followed, however, Lovelace reinvented herself as an anti-porn crusader, toiled in poverty and insisted that she had a gun held to her head off-camera during those infamous “Throat” scenes, blaming the experience largely on her manager/husband Chuck Traynor.

“We’ve yet to find Linda’s husband,” Faris noted of the casting call she’s currently working on with Wilder. “That’s sort of our hang-up right now; we’re trying to get that.

“This would be incredibly intense,” Faris said of the script about Lovelace, who died in 2002 following a car accident and several weeks on life support. “It would be the most difficult thing I’ve done, and I’m really nervous.”

Although known primarily for comedies, Faris has made small appearances in dramas like “Lost in Translation” and “Brokeback Mountain.” She’s in the process of wrapping the Playboy-bunny comedy “I Know What Boys Like,” hopes to start shooting “Inferno” in the next few months and is currently preparing by immersing herself in Lovelace’s history.

“It’s a pretty tragic story,” Faris admitted with earnest. “It’s going to be a challenge, definitely.”

Well, science tells us that there’s no fucking way you could pull off a biopic about one of history’s most famous/notorious/etc. porn stars and not have some nudity coming our way. And just the thought of Anna Faris stripping it off… well shit who needs a porn movie? Just give us some nude Anna and we’re all set.

Expect this one in a couple years, if it makes it. And we seriously hope it does.

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Anna Faris in her underwear and a very pregnant looking Katharine McPhee

August 16, 2007 | Filed Under Anna Faris, Katharine McPhee, Movie News

anna faris in her underwear nearly nude

Here’s Anna Faris on the set of her new movie, House Bunny, dressed in her underwear with bubbles floating everywhere. If you look close enough, you’ll even see a hilariously pregnant Katharine McPhee in there as well.

It looks like shooting for House Bunny is progressing along so surely we’ll see this sometime next summer once it’s through post-production. Anna Faris, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis… I’m predicting this thing does well enough at the box office to cover costs and make a small but tidy profit. It all depends on when they release it and what it’s up against, of course.

In other Anna Faris news… well shit, there is none. Is she fully divorced yet? Because she’s looking amazing in these pictures and on last week’s Entourage and I want me some. Dang!

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Anna Faris looks delicious as a Playboy Bunny

August 6, 2007 | Filed Under Anna Faris

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Thirty-year-old Anna Faris (Scary Movie, My Super Ex-Girlfriend) looks absolutely fantastic playing the part of a Playboy Bunny that has been recently canned and takes the job of house mother at a very nerdy sorority house.

The as-yet-untitled flick sounds like it’s coming from the typical Anna Faris smart-ass-youth-comedy genre, but with this as the synopsis…

A recently sacked pin-up girl (Faris) signs up to be the new house mother at UCLA’s nerdiest sorority.

…we’ll be waiting a while to find out more. At least you can see how good she looks while she’s shooting the film, and at a recent photoshoot. Deeeeelish.