Depp, Paradis 'to play literary lovers'

Vanessa Paradis has confirmed that she and long-term partner Johnny Depp are in talks to star together in a film about feminist writer Simone De Beauvoir.

The French singer and actress was rumoured to be in line for the role of De Beauvoir in My American Lover, and has now revealed that Depp is in negotiations to play her lover Nelson Algren.

Paradis told WENN: "They're still writing the script but the idea would be amazing because it's such a beautiful story. You only know when you're really actually shooting."

The couple were previously cast together in Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote, but the ill-fated project was never completed.

"We've had plenty of opportunities to work together," Paradis explained. "But I don't know that I could do it... It's something that we don't look for, otherwise it would've happened many times.

"My American Lover came along and it might happen just because the story is great and why not if we can, but we don't push things. Playing in front of one of the best actors in the world that we have and someone I know so well will be challenging.

"That's why we don't run after it. But I don't know... why not?"