MODEL and heiress Lydia Hearst Shaw has landed her first big Hollywood role as a comic character based on troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan.
Hearst, a 26-year-old heir to the Hearst publishing fortune and daughter of once-kidnapped Patricia Campbell Hearst and Bernard Shaw, will play the lead role in Dogs in Pocketbooks, the New York Post reported.
Screenwriter Charles Casillo said, "Lydia will play a bratty movie goddess in and out of rehab, in trouble with the law, and hounded by greedy agents, predatory paparazzi, off-the-wall stalkers and crazed media - a role obviously based on Lindsay Lohan.
"I spent a lot of time casting for the right actress for this screwball comedy, but Lydia is perfect.
She's one of the few supermodels who can actually act
"She's smart, well-read, charming and very beautiful. We looked at a lot of actresses for this role, and I was really knocked out."
Casillo - whose short film Fetish was a hit on the festival circuit - added, "(The movie) is in no way mean-spirited towards Lindsay. It's the kind of thing she has spoofed about herself in the past. It's more of a satire about the crazy people around her and the situations they generate. It satirises the obsession with modern celebrity."
Dynasty icon Joan Collins will star as a high-powered agent in the picture, which starts shooting in New York and Los Angeles in February.
Hearst recently relocated from New York to Hollywood to focus on her acting career, and has been dating actor Jeff Goldblum.
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