Katie Holmes will be playing Victoria Beckham in the new biopic on David Beckham’s life. The people over at hollywoodnew.com give us this:
Katie Holmes is tipped to play celebrity pal Victoria Beckham in a new biopic of soccer superstar David Beckham. Holmes and her fiancé Tom Cruise are close friends with the British pair, but while movie bosses were keen to cast the Batman Begins star, Cruise will not be playing Beckham because of their “marked physical differences.” An insider says, “Tom has a brilliant grasp of what the public want to see and thought David’s story was wonderful.
“A football star emerges from humble origins, there’s drama within the matches and romance in his love affair with Victoria at the height of her pop-star fame. “At the time Tom was seeing quite a lot of David and Victoria. The quartet are very close friends and the Beckhams would only be happy about their story being used if Tom and Katie were involved.”
I like to imagine the conversation between these four celebrities. “Tom? Have you read that new Dianetics book? “Why no David I haven’t” “We’re so wonderful as a couple, don’t you think Tom?” “Yes Victoria, perfect right down to your noses” “Well then why don’t you make a movie about us” “Sure David, I could cast my Katie as your Victoria” “Yes that works, just put her on a diet of laxatives and scientology prayer. Really we wouldn’t do a film if you two weren’t involved” “Katie you’re drooling” “Oh don’t mind her she’s just so happy about life”. Well it may have gone slightly different.
Weird famous people aside the story of David Beckham although a little soon doesn’t strike me as the worst idea in the world, it seems to be much more of a movie of the week than a blockbuster hit but still, not the worst idea.
I like Katie Holmes, she is a decent actress and a beautiful girl who has made some very bad choices lately.
But Katie is under extreme scrutiny by everyone right now and playing a bratty British pop star will do nothing but push harder on her nosedive of a career. Also for her to look like V. Beckham she would have to lose a lot of weight (Holmes is not a big girl, but Mrs. Beckham is about 30 lbs underweight). Plus all kidding aside she is quite unexpressive these days and I wonder if after showing the world a frozen smile for the last year she is actually up to the task of acting, often if you don’t use it you do lose it.
Maybe Tom loves Katie, perhaps they do have a romantic love story that nobody can see but them (and I’m up for seeing a movie about that one day, especially if it was from their housekeeper’s perspective). But Cruise getting Holmes play a role that she will almost certainly be criticized for just because without her the Beckham’s wouldn’t make a movie is a very unloving act.
I wonder if it this will make it into the TomCat movie.
