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Kal Penn Teases Role as Anna Nicole Smith’s Doctor in Movie About Model’s Life: It’s a ‘Drama’ but ‘Equal Parts Ridiculous’
Kal Penn is set to star as Anna Nicole Smith's physician Dr. Sandeep Kapoor in "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor," an indie about the model's final days.
“But then I read the doctor’s autobiography and found it interesting and compelling,” Penn told me Monday night at the South Asians at the Oscars party on the Paramount lot. Variety ’s Tatiana Siegel exclusively reported Feb. 23 that Penn is set to portray Sandeep in “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor,” which chronicles Smith’s final days before dying of an accidental overdose in 2007 at the age of 39. Written and directed by Thane Economou (“The Wedding Party”), the movie is a “drama,” Penn said, but it will be “equal parts ridiculous” because of some of the “larger than life personalities” involved with Smith as well as the tabloid media’s wall-to-wall coverage of the one-time Playboy model.
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