Empire’s always had a soft spot for Leslie Bibb, since we first saw her on under-rated and quickly cancelled TV show Popular – and now it seems that Hollywood has finally gotten round to reading all those pro-Bibb letters, emails, postcards and severed horses’ heads we sent ‘em.
For, after bagging a couple of supporting roles in high-profile movies (Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby and next year’s Iron Man), the 32 year-old actress has bagged a lead role in the soon-to-shoot indie comedy, Miss Nobody.
Bibb will play a mild-mannered secretary who rises fast up the corporate ladder after she discovers a taste for murder – so, not unlike A Shock To The System, the Michael Caine black comedy from a few years back, then.
Tim Cox – whom Variety describes as a ‘tyro’ helmer, which in their archaic industry-speak means he’s a first-time director – will call the shots, and has lined up a pretty good cast for his first feature. Adam Goldberg, Missy Pyle and Kathy Baker have also signed on, with some of them presumably featuring on Miss Nobody’s hitlist.
Shooting starts next month in LA.