Eva Mendes: Whore

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10Sep2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 7:50PM

Eva Mendes will join Nicolas Cage in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which, it should be pointed out, is not a remake of the Harvey Keitel movie from the 1990s, although there have to be some similarities, you'd think, or else why keep the name?

Mendes told MTV that the film is a murder mystery set in post-Katrina New Orleans, but that's about all she said regarding the plot. Because, she insists, she doesn't really know how director Werner Herzog's movie will turn out.

"I have no idea what we made in a way because it was so experimental," she said. "I don’t know [what it's gonna wind up being]." One thing it won't be is as explicitly violent or sexual as the NC-17 Bad Lieutenant directed by Abel Ferrara. "There is nothing that I was in this film that was like that," she swears.

We know from Cage's recent interviews that he thinks of his cop as a James Bond character. And if that's true, Eva might be Octopussy. "I play a character who is Nicholas Cage’s love interest, and she is a working girl, she is a prostitute who is very damaged," Mendes revealed. "I’m a prostitute so I’m a criminal in that sense, but it’s kinda hard to explain. There’s actually a very sweet love story between Nic’s character and mine, in a very warped and dark, dark world."

The new Bad Lieutenant is due in theaters next year; for his part, Ferrara is so upset about this new film that over the summer that he said, "I wish these people die in Hell. I hope they’re all in the same streetcar, and it blows up." Classy.

Colin Boyd |

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