Shirley Maclaine to Play Coco Chanel

Dec 21, 2007 @ 12:05pm

Shirley Maclaine will play Coco Chanel in an upcoming biopic, and it just gets weirder:

The project is a Lifetime TV miniseries, which chronicles Chanel's later years returning to Paris, after exiling herself in Germany and Switzerland during World War II.

According to Variety, the project is completely endorsed by both Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld, with costume designer Stefano de Nardis even getting archival research from the company.

The program will run next year on Lifetime. Meanwhile, the Chanel feature-length movie, Coco Avant Chanel, has begun production in Paris, with Audrey Tautou as the lead.

Demi Moore is still rumored to be in talks for an American Chanel movie, and we think that would be fantastic - but Angelina Jolie would be cool for the part, too.

posted by guest

Dec 21, 2007 12:40PM

Angelina Jolie? Eww. More like Parker Posey.

posted by xxi

Dec 21, 2007 1:37PM

Jolie would be the worst choice possible. Demi as well, neither really do it for me. What happened to all the young girls that were mentioned for the project? Are they only focusing on the later part of her life?

posted by guest

Dec 21, 2007 2:50PM

Well with Shirley, maybe the pic is about Coco's prior lives?

posted by Cafe Mode

Dec 21, 2007 5:21PM

Angelina Jolie? We would have a lips problem then, Coco's were particularly sharp. I'm sure Marina Hands and Audrey Tautou will be perfect (of course that last remark has nothing to do with the fact I'm French).

posted by guest

Dec 21, 2007 9:00PM

Audrey Tautou is perfect for the role...and i'm not french...

posted by Merritt

Dec 25, 2007 2:14AM

yeah lifetime would. angie...awesome...unrealistic Coco...but awesome.
oh and great a great film (from paris) that will only available in specialty theatres... if that!

posted by guest

Dec 27, 2007 11:12AM

I still want to see Cate Blancett play her after that photo shoot she did a few years ago as Coco Chanel.