
Lily Rose Depp (Nosferatu) is set to star in the playboy film directed by daughter of Jack Nicholson, Lorraine Nicholson. Titled Playmates, the film is to be Lorraine’s directorial debut that has been acquired by Searchlight Pictures. Along Depp, her mother French actress Vanessa Paradis (Girl on the Bridge) is to star in the film, followed by Indiana Elle (The Housemaid). Lewis Pullman is reported by The Hollywood Reporter to be portraying Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine.
The movie is set around a 13-year old girl, portrayed by Elle, forming a friendship with a model competing to be playmate of the month. The plot of the movie is inspired by Lorraine’s actual life at the Playboy mansion was she was a kid. In a Vanity Fair article, Lorraine writes about her experiences there at the Playboy mansion. She recalls a easter-egg hunt where Hefner’s kids got in trouble for lying about finding the eggs fairly. “Up until that moment I had never in my life seen Hef angry. Of course, he didn’t care about the winner of an egg hunt. In fact, if his boys wanted a GameCube, he probably would have bought them one. The problem was that they lied. Hef did not raise his boys to become dishonest men. I can’t remember if the boys were grounded, and if so, for how long. What was more striking to me was the realization that with this cheating scandal, they were becoming men.”
It’s in this article that she admits to being taken to the mansion by her nanny, Cis, who was previously Hefner’s social secretary—and never by her father.
