Anna Faris to Play Linda Lovelace in Biopic

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Known for her comedic talents in the “Scary Movie” franchise, actress Anna Faris is set to adopt a sexier on-screen persona. The actress will portray the late “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace in an upcoming biopic titled “Inferno.”

No other stars have been cast yet for the movie that Faris is putting together with a first-time filmmaker. Matthew Wilder has been tapped to direct the film.

“There’s a project about Linda Lovelace, the porn star, that we’re really hoping to put together soon,” Faris told MTVNews.com. “It’s a really deep, dark drama — and it would be cool for me to do.”

“Deep Throat,” in which Lovelace headlined, was the first sexually explicit film to cross over to mainstream audiences and helped launch a sexual revolution while igniting a conservative moral backlash. It is said to be the most profitable film of all time.

Lovelace’s post-“Deep Throat” work reached a high point in “Exotic French Fantasies” with John Holmes. She disappeared into a haze of drug use and sexual excess, re-emerging in the mid-1980s as an outspoken opponent of the adult industry, alleging her then-husband Chuck Traynor forced her into pornography. Lovelace died on April 22, 2002 from internal injuries she suffered in a car crash.

Faris is looking to shoot the movie by June and currently is researching the role.

“This would be incredibly intense,” Faris said. “It would be the most difficult thing I’ve done, and I’m really nervous.”

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