Soap opera lovers sit tight: American sex symbol Pamela Anderson, who once patrolled Los Angeles beaches in the Baywatch series, may soon be sighted on Georgia’s Black Sea coast to guest-star in a summer romantic comedy.
Georgian film producer Davit Imedashvili, who worked on the Renny Harlin action flic that brought Andy Garcia to Georgia to play President Mikheil Saakashvili, is now eyeing Anderson for a supporting role in a film tentatively titled "The Sea of Love," news magazine Liberali reported.
Georgian singing beauty Sofo Nizharadze, who cinched ninth place in this year’s Eurovision, the continent’s pop-glitz festival, will play the lead in the Cinderella story. It is yet unclear what may be Anderson’s role.
But this is not all. Mexican-born movie star Gael Garcia Bernal, known for his role as Che Guevara in "The Motorcycle Diaries" and as a transvestite in "Bad Education," has come to the mountains of Kazbegi to shoot a thriller, The Loneliest Planet. The film tells the story of a couple, lost in the Georgian mountains, on "a twisted backpacking trip" that tests their relationship.
Looks like Georgian movie producers are going to town with their plans to turn Georgia into a hip new setting for the Western film industry -- just call it a progression from Spaghetti Westerns to Khachapuri Dramas.
Giorgi Lomsadze is a journalist based in Tbilisi, and author of Tamada Tales.
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