Chaplins Grandaughter to go Naked (Well Almost)

[daveymck]

From the BBC



Coventry's most famous woman is to get the Chaplin treatment.

Kiera Chaplin, 22, granddaughter of iconic actor Charlie, is hoping to forge a film career of her own, with the help of the title role in the first movie about Lady Godiva since the 1960s.

Shooting for Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle - described by co-producer Dennis Timothy as "a romp in the Full Monty tradition" - is due to start in the summer, with the picture scheduled for release in 2006.

Some of the planned filming locations include Coventry's Memorial Park, the city hall and Warwick Castle.

Mr Timothy is hoping the Chaplin name can help propel the independent movie to the kind of international success enjoyed by the Full Monty.

"Kiera's a beauty and what you might call Hollywood royalty," Mr Timothy said.

He told BBC News that the team behind the film, which is partly the work of Warwick-based Koralis Pictures, had initially been in talks with US actress Pamela Anderson to play the role of Lady Godiva.

"Lady Godiva, as legend has it, was young. Pammy could've been her mother," he said.

"Kiera is far nearer to Lady Godiva as legend has it."

Mr Timothy said Chaplin - who is the chairman of the company set up by her grandfather, Limelight Films - was also free from the type of "baggage" that accompanies Anderson

And anybody hoping for a titillating re-enactment of Lady Godiva's semi-mythical naked ride through the streets of Coventry is likely to be disappointed.

"Our film won't be soft porn," Mr Timothy said.

"It'll be a family movie with a family rating. There'll be nothing in the film which will offend."

The movie, which is set in the present day, sees the fictional Mayor of Coventry blackmailed into converting Coventry's Memorial Park into a site for a casino.

A local villain then brings in a tribe of wealthy Native Americans to develop the casino.

[Michael Davis]

Nice last line.

-Michael

[daveymck]

there more via the link but gave up cutting and pasting as I didnt think anyone would read past the this is not soft porn bit.