Kal Penn will never forget seeing his “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor” co-star Abbie Cornish for the first time as Anna Nicole Smith.
“She really embodied Anna Nicole in a very striking way,” Penn tells me. “She was a completely different person. I briefly met Anna Nicole a handful of times way back when I was starting my career, and she was on a reality show. I never really had any conversations of any note with her but it definitely brought me back to that time. Abbie is excellent. She’s phenomenal in this role.”
The movie, written and directed by Thane Economou, tells the story of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor (Penn), Smith’s doctor, who was charged with several felonies related to prescribing medications to the late model before her death in 2007. He was cleared of any wrongdoing and acquitted of all charges after a nine-week trial.
The movie is based on Kapoor’s memoir of the same name.
Variety has the exclusive first look at the film. One still, above, shows Smith and Kapoor’s appearance at the West Hollywood Pride parade in 2005. At the time, Kapoor faced backlash for seemingly crossing a doctor-patient boundary by becoming too close with Smith.
