Can't End Well
Angelina Jolie follows Elizabeth Taylor again: First husband stealing, nowCleopatra
Biographer Stacy Schiff says Angelina Jolie has "the perfect look" to playCleopatra
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie made similar waves when they costarred in "Mr. andMrs. Smith"
Angelina Jolie, though sultry, is no Liz Taylor.
Angelina Jolie has been tapped to play Cleopatra in producer Scott Rudin's (No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood) adaptation of a new biography entitled Cleopatra: A Life.
USA Today reports that at a promotional event for the book, by Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff, Schiff remarked that Brad Pitt would be a "no-brainer" for Marc Anthony. (Interestingly enough, she also told reporters that Angelina Jolie had "the perfect look" for the part, although history would suggest that the actual Cleopatra was probably not so, um, fair.)
One thing is certain — Angelina Jolie is no Elizabeth Taylor. They have their similarities — each famously seduced a married man on set; Angelina stole Brad Pitt from Jennifer Aniston on Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Taylor swiped (and later married) Richard Burton after they costarred in Cleopatra — but Jolie just doesn't hold a candle to Liz.
I know she's gone all adoption crazy and humanitarian, but it wasn't so long ago that she was tatting Billy Bob Thornton's name on her arm, wearing blood around her neck and talking (too much) about her semi-sexual fascination with weaponry.
Taylor, on the other hand, has always been the picture of class.
Although her role in the 1963 epic was critically panned (and nearly bankrupted its studio, despite being the highest grossing film of the year), Taylor's film earned four Academy Awards and her portrayal made her name nearly synonymous with the Egyptian queen.
Tell us — will you see Jolie as Cleopatra? Are you reading the new biography?
