Sexy BBC drama star in the frame to play Elizabeth Taylor in blockbuster TV show about movie icon
RISING Brit star Marisa Abela is in the frame to play Elizabeth Taylor in a blockbuster TV drama charting the movie legend's sensational life.
The actress won a Bafta for playing sexy financier Yasmin Kara-Hanani in three series of the BBC's bonking-and-banking drama Industry.
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Marisa Abela is in the frame to play Elizabeth Taylor in a blockbuster TV drama charting the movie legend's sensational life
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Screen siren Liz Taylor is rumoured to have once had a threesome with President John F Kennedy and actor Robert Stack
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Marisa won a Bafta for playing sexy financier Yasmin Kara-Hanani in BBC drama Industry
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An insider said: 'Bosses of the adaptation want someone who can capture the essence of the single-minded woman that married seven times and was said to have had a voracious sexual appetite.
'It's very early days for the project but the producers want to assemble formidable British talent with the aim of making this a blockbuster series.'
Former EastEnders boss Dominic Treadwell-Collins is developing the drama — called
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The scripts are being written by Times columnist Caitlin Moran, a superfan who once said of her idol: 'She ate up life like a sexy glutton.'
It is based on the book Erotic Vagrancy, written by Roger Lewis, about Liz's passionate love affair with husband
The London-born star of Cleopatra and Giant, who died in 2011 aged 79, was said to have had sexual needs as famous as her husband's.
Legend has it that she once had a threesome with President John F Kennedy and actor Robert Stack.
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Producers Happy Prince made the racy adaptation of
The company is part of ITV Studios, which means the drama could end up airing on ITV.
Seven divorces, health drama & a public affair - Elizabeth Taylor's controversial life revealed as doc shares her side
But it may end up in a bidding war among streamers with a hunger for quality British drama.
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