For her first non-fiction onscreen role, Aubrey Plaza is looking forward to delivering a portrayal befitting Heidi Fleiss .

After Deadline reported that she will produce and star as Fleiss in an upcoming biopic about the ‘Hollywood Madam’, the Golden Globe nominee expressed her excitement to play the “ultimate badass icon” to whom she “spiritually” relates.

“I’ve been on this track for a while. I got it in my head that I wanted to play her a couple of years ago and I’ve never played a real-life person before,” she told IndieWire . “It’s a different kind of scale, challenge, that I’m really excited about, and I just think she’s an incredible person, incredible character.”

Plaza continued, “The story is insane. She’s done something that probably nobody else has ever done, and she’

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