Lily-Rose Depp to Star in Playboy Drama from Lorraine Nicholson
The Hollywood Reporter • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Lorraine Nicholson, daughter of Jack Nicholson, is making her feature directorial debut with "Playmates," a coming-of-age drama set around the Playboy Mansion, acquired by Searchlight Pictures.
- The film stars Lily-Rose Depp as a Playmate hopeful and Indiana Elle as a 13-year-old girl who considers the Playboy Mansion her second home, exploring their unlikely friendship.
- Bill Pullman is cast as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, while the script, written by Nicholson, draws on her personal childhood experiences at the Playboy Mansion in the 1990s.
- Producers Alex Orlovsky and Duncan Montgomery bring extensive indie film experience, and the project is overseen by Searchlight executives Richard Ruiz and Cornelia Burleigh.
- Nicholson, an AFI Directing Workshop graduate, previously directed the short film "Life Boat," and the cast includes rising talents with recent notable roles in film and television.
