Carmen Electra is playing her most fabulous role ever in Winnipeg this week -- herself.
The 33-year-old former Baywatch beauty steps out of a teenage boy's dreams and into his school in the $15-million comedy Nothing But the Truth, shooting around town until June 18.
Producer Mark Canton says the boy (Bad Santa's Ryan Pinkston) has a picture of Electra in his school locker and tells friends it was a personal gift from the actress. But he's as shocked as anyone when his lies start coming true, and Electra shows up in the flesh.
Electra has been making a career of playing herself lately. She popped up on recent episodes of TV sitcoms Joey, House and Fat Actress and plays herself in upcoming movie Pledge This. She and husband, rocker Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction), starred in MTV reality show 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave, shot before their wedding, and she's reportedly making a killing on her striptease workout videos.
Electra also stars in the new feature Searching for Bobby D, screening at the inaugural Winnipeg International Film Festival this Saturday. Producer Sabino Tummillo says he and director Paul Borghese invited her to attend the screening at the Ramada Marlborough Entertainment Centre but her plans are not firm.
She telephoned Tummillo on Sunday and promised she'd try to make it but she's awfully busy these days and is expected to depart Winnipeg before the weekend.
Too bad, because she'll miss a mini-reunion with Bobby D co-stars including Tony Darrow (The Sopranos, Analyze This) and William DeMeo (The Sopranos, Analyze That).
Other local film and TV productions on the front burner include Original Pictures' TV series Falcon Beach, for Global and ABC Family; chiller feature Population 436, starring Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under) and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst; local producer Brendan Sawatzky's Summer Babe, featuring Molly Parker (Deadwood); Vonnie Von Helmolt's The Magic Flute and Lifetime TV movie Haunting Sarah, in which Kim Raver (Third Watch, 24) will play twins. Another miniseries from Von Zerneck Sertner Productions (Category 6: Day of Destruction) is set to shoot later this summer. The mini is tentatively titled C7.
Tummillo says he and Borghese, who shot the 1998 documentary The Canadian Ballet: Striptease Dancers of the North in Winnipeg, hope to shoot a feature film here next year.
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