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Kal Penn to play Indian American doctor in Anna Nicole Smith movie
Penn’s character is based on Smith’s doctor who was wrongly implicated in her death in 2007
Indian American actor to star in Anna Nicole Smith movie / Instagram/annanicolesmith1/kalpenn
Indian American actor Kal Penn is set to feature in a movie based on the late American model actress Anna Nicole Smith, Variety reported.
Smith died on February 8, 2007, due to “an accidental drug overdose with no other criminal element present” according to the Seminole Police Department in Florida.
The actress was regarded as one of the most desirable women in the world during the 1990s after she replaced supermodel Claudia Schiffer as a Guess Jeans model. Smith’s legacy has been kept alive in pop culture through several documentaries and shows, including RuPaul’s Drag Race US during the Snatch Game challenge where one or more drag queens impersonate her almost every season.
The upcoming movie ‘Trust Me, I’m a Doctor’ will chronicle the final days till her death at age 39, which sparked a tabloid frenzy, as per a Variety report. The film is based on a book of the same name written by Dr Sandeep Kapoor in 2017.
Kapoor was a Los Angeles-based physician who allegedly prescribed Smith methadone and Vicodin, among other drugs, as highlighted in a People report.
In 2009, Kapoor was charged with eight felonies, including conspiring to furnish controlled substances, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance, and obtaining fraudulent prescriptions. The following year, he was cleared on all charges after the court found no significant evidence of wrongdoing.
‘Trust Me, I’m a Doctor’ will follow the life of Smith’s pain-medication doctor (to be played by Penn) whose life was turned upside down after being charged wrongfully in the model’s death alongside two other defendants.
Penn is executive producing the movie alongside Dan Spilo. Filming is scheduled to begin in the spring in Toronto, Canada. The movie is yet to cast an actress to essay Smith’s character, among other cast members.
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