Tara Reid Confirms She’s in Talks to Play Carole Baskin

Can Tara Reid and Nicolas Cage play Carole Baskin and Joe Unique? It certain appears that means. Reid, 44, confirmed completely to Us Weekly that she’s in talks for the position within the upcoming movie, during which Cage, 56, has already been solid in.

“We’re positively in main conversations and figuring out the issues — the gives and this and that so, let’s see what occurs,” the actress advised Us whereas selling her upcoming movie fifth Borough, obtainable on-demand Wednesday, June 3. “I might like to play this character. It’d be superb.”


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The Sharknado alum additionally famous that if she did land the position, she’d need to spend a while with the 56-year-old Massive Cat Rescue CEO, who was made well-known throughout Netflix’s Tiger King: Homicide, Mayhem and Insanity.

“I might positively need to spend every week along with her — to not ask her something, to see how she eats, s–ts, see how she performs, see if she talks to folks,” Reid continued. “It’d be extra for me to check, simply to get her vibe, and from there I might choose it up. I wouldn’t need to ask her something actually. … I believe she is a fancy character and I do know I’d nail it.”

Tara Reid and Carole Baskin Steve Cohn/Shutterstock; Mirrorpix / MEGA

The Boys alum additionally defined that Baskin has “so many issues occurring,” and that she’d like to discover all of them.


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“Did she kill her husband? Did the tiger eat him? Did she do that? There’s a lot stuff up within the air. Nothing’s ever been confirmed and perhaps she did nothing or perhaps she did. Nobody is aware of,” Reid mentioned. “So to put a few of that, you may strive to determine a bit of bit, and attempt to get near her. That’s one of the simplest ways you may do that film. I might like to play her on this movie and make it superb.”

For now, Reid is concentrated on her upcoming position in fifth Borough, which is somebody “nobody would ever anticipate me to play,” she defined. The crime drama follows the lifetime of an ex-con (Steve Stanulis) who’s pressured again into the prison world to avoid wasting his daughter, who has a mind tumor. Reid portrays the ex-con’s spouse.


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“She’s actually in a tough place. She loves her husband, he’s a gangster. Her daughter’s dying of most cancers. How do you cope with that? After which clearly the daughter will get into medicine, she tries to get the cash to repair her as a result of she wants the cash for the hospital,” the American Pie star mentioned. “So there’s quite a bit occurring there. I believe the film has a really highly effective message of household hope, and likewise the truth that this does occur to folks.”

For extra from Reid, watch the video above.

With reporting by Marc Lupo

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