Beyonce Knowles and Eva Longoria in film as lesbians

November 13th, 2006

Los Angeles, CA - Beyonce Knowles and Eva Longoria have agreed to star in a movie as lesbians.

Beyonce Knowles and Eva Longoria in film as lesbians.

Directed by Sofia Coppola, the film is a raunchy adaptation of the Victorian novel of the same name written by Sarah Waters. Beyonce and Eva would play music hall star Kitty Butler and her lover Nancy Astley who dresses up like a man for music hall.

The subject of many a male fantasy, Desperate Housewives' star Eva is quoted by the Daily Star as saying, "Yes it's true, we're talking about doing that... it's such a wonderful novel, a beautiful love story."

"We've had Brokeback Mountain so the time is right for this divine novel to get the same treatment," Beyonce said.

The sexy Longoria, 31, is also enthusiastic about the Sofia Coppola-helmed project.

"Yes, it's true. We are talking about doing the movie together," she said. "It's such a wonderful novel, a beautiful love story."

Coppola, who directed the edgy "Virgin Suicides" and the Oscar-winning "Lost in Translation," hopes to get the green light to make the groundbreaking feature about hot lady love.

Knowles, currently starring in "Dream Girls," would be tapped for the role of Kitty Butler, a male impersonator at the local music hall, while Longoria, would likely play Nancy Astley, the brine-soaked oyster girl who becomes Kitty's lesbian lover and later dabbles in prostitution.

The book's title is a Victorian sex euphemism. A BBC-TV version four years ago caused outrage in Britain due to graphic love scenes that included sex toys.