Smith, whose movie credits include "Naked Gun 33 1/3" and "The Hudsucker Proxy," plays Lucy, who teams with fellow aliens Cameron (Lenise Soren) and Drew to battle an extraterrestrial madwoman
April 24, 2007 (Press Release) --
Anna Nicole Smith was never considered a serious actress, and she's unlikely to win any posthumous film awards for her final role as a goofy, flatulent superhero who's part of a trio of alien babes protecting Earth.
Yet the low-budget B-movie comedy "Illegal Aliens" does show an intriguing side of Smith a person aware of the silliness surrounding her persona and someone willing to go to extremes to make fun of it.
Early on in the movie_ which comes out May 1 on DVD, three months after Smith's death there's a clip from Smith's reality-TV show, in which she devours a life-size cake made in her own image.
"Eating her own image, that's what she does in the movie," said David Giancola, director of "Illegal Aliens," on which Smith was a producer and her late son, Daniel Smith, was associate producer. "She really wanted people to laugh. Anna and Daniel wanted to make a movie that satirized Hollywood and ourselves to a great extent."
The movie is meant as a spoof of action flicks, with one of the gags being that the heroes are named after "Charlie's Angels" stars Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore (Smith's character wakes from a nap and says she dreamed Cameron was dating Justin Timberlake, Diaz's ex-boyfriend, and that Drew was running around screaming "E.T.! E.T.!", a reference to Barrymore's role in the 1982 sci-fi blockbuster).
"Illegal Aliens" presents the heroes particularly Soren and Jimenez in ever more revealing shorts and halters and Laurer as an outrageously over-the-top foe whose detailed explanation of her dastardly plot comes with an on-screen "super-villain monologue timer."
An opening scene shows the trio of shape-shifting visitors coming to Earth, Soren and Jimenez's characters shaped like alien blobs and Smith's shaped like a hog, accompanied by her little-girl voice squealing, "I'm a pig in space!" They later transform into hot women and get jobs as stunt experts in Hollywood.
In one scene, Smith's Lucy is scolded by Cameron to put on more clothes, a reference to the revealing outfits for which the Playboy Playmate of the Year was known.
Smith plays Lucy as an extreme parody of her own ditzy-blonde image, providing the movie's bumbling comic relief while Soren and Jimenez do the heavy-lifting on the action scenes.
"She was always wanting to go the extra mile to do the spit-takes, do the falls, be silly. She really let her child self out. That little kid in everyone," Soren said. "It gave us permission to have more fun and be silly, because the movie's silly. ...
"She just had an innocence about her.
Source: http://www.msn.com
Anna Nicole Smith was never considered a serious actress, and she's unlikely to win any posthumous film awards for her final role as a goofy, flatulent superhero who's part of a trio of alien babes protecting Earth.
Yet the low-budget B-movie comedy "Illegal Aliens" does show an intriguing side of Smith a person aware of the silliness surrounding her persona and someone willing to go to extremes to make fun of it.
Early on in the movie_ which comes out May 1 on DVD, three months after Smith's death there's a clip from Smith's reality-TV show, in which she devours a life-size cake made in her own image.
"Eating her own image, that's what she does in the movie," said David Giancola, director of "Illegal Aliens," on which Smith was a producer and her late son, Daniel Smith, was associate producer. "She really wanted people to laugh. Anna and Daniel wanted to make a movie that satirized Hollywood and ourselves to a great extent."
The movie is meant as a spoof of action flicks, with one of the gags being that the heroes are named after "Charlie's Angels" stars Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore (Smith's character wakes from a nap and says she dreamed Cameron was dating Justin Timberlake, Diaz's ex-boyfriend, and that Drew was running around screaming "E.T.! E.T.!", a reference to Barrymore's role in the 1982 sci-fi blockbuster).
"Illegal Aliens" presents the heroes particularly Soren and Jimenez in ever more revealing shorts and halters and Laurer as an outrageously over-the-top foe whose detailed explanation of her dastardly plot comes with an on-screen "super-villain monologue timer."
An opening scene shows the trio of shape-shifting visitors coming to Earth, Soren and Jimenez's characters shaped like alien blobs and Smith's shaped like a hog, accompanied by her little-girl voice squealing, "I'm a pig in space!" They later transform into hot women and get jobs as stunt experts in Hollywood.
In one scene, Smith's Lucy is scolded by Cameron to put on more clothes, a reference to the revealing outfits for which the Playboy Playmate of the Year was known.
Smith plays Lucy as an extreme parody of her own ditzy-blonde image, providing the movie's bumbling comic relief while Soren and Jimenez do the heavy-lifting on the action scenes.
"She was always wanting to go the extra mile to do the spit-takes, do the falls, be silly. She really let her child self out. That little kid in everyone," Soren said. "It gave us permission to have more fun and be silly, because the movie's silly. ...
"She just had an innocence about her.
Source: http://www.msn.com
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