As Hollywood patiently awaits a brand new Patrick Bateman, one American Psycho (2000) alum needs to reprise their position.
Chloë Sevigny, who can subsequent be seen in Luca Guadagnino‘s thriller After the Hunt, revealed she pitched the director on revisiting the character of Patrick’s secretary Jean in his upcoming adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 guide.
“After I heard that [Guadagnino] was perhaps doing it … I pitched to him that I ought to play Jean once more, and that they do this reverse-aging on me,” she informed IndieWire. “I assumed that will be one thing that he could be into, conceptually having the identical actress play the identical half.”
Sevigny added, “However I don’t know. He stated he was going to think about one thing else for me.”
American Psycho was a groundbreaking and controversial work when it was printed in 1991, not just for its iconic Manhattan funding banker-turned-serial killer but in addition for its unimaginable consideration to element for the world it was getting into, in addition to the graphic violence its predominant character delivered, resulting in it being censored in a number of international locations.
That includes Sevigny as Jean, the Mary Harron-helmed 2000 adaptation starred Christian Bale as Bateman. The forged additionally included Reese Witherspoon, Justin Theroux, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Josh Lucas, Invoice Sage, Samantha Mathis and Matt Ross.
Introduced in October, Guadagnino’s movie can be a brand new adaptation of Ellis’ novel penned by Scott Z. Burns, versus a remake. The property is one thing the studio has been making an attempt to crack for a while, and following latest conferences with Guadagnino, execs felt he was the proper option to deliver a contemporary take.
