Salacious news from the New York Post this morning: teen soap star and latterday gold hot-panted chanteuse Kylie Minogue will turn up in Jack and Diane, a teen drama starring Juno Temple and Riley Keough. Bradley Rust Gray is writer / director, and it's due out next year.
Kylie's film roles have always been sporadic: there was the Neighbours-era** The Delinquents** and her ill-advised turn in the Van Damme Street Fighter, but we've not seen her on the big screen since Moulin Rouge, where she popped up very briefly as the Absinthe Fairy.
Her part in Jack and Diane is "a heavily tattooed lesbian", in a film which sees Temple (St Trinians, Atonement) and Keough (Marie Currie in The Runaways) embarking on a sapphic affair. Temple is the innocent one while Keough is the tough one, but it's Temple who fights to keep the love alive when the relationship has to go long-distance. Oh, and there are werewolves in it, in the form of visions that Temple starts having, triggered by her "newly awakened sexual desire". Juno Snaps? Now you're talking.
BD's ears pricked up at the mention of lyncanthropy, but it's unclear to what extent, if any, this is a horror film. But never mind that. According to the NY Post's source "Kylie's fans will be surprised to see her in this role but her performance is good. She does have one love scene where she kisses a girl". There's no news yet about whether she liked it.