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Published: November 27, 2009 3:00 a.m.

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French first lady to be in Allen’s next film

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Woody Allen has successfully courted France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

The former supermodel and wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy says she’s agreed to be in the famed director’s next film but doesn’t know what role he has in store for her and acknowledges she could be a terrible actress.

Allen “asked me to be in his next film,” she told Canal Plus television, where she appeared for an interview and duet with Harry Connick Jr.

Asked whether Allen had told her what part she’d play, Bruni-Sarkozy replied: “No. But I said ‘yes.’ … I do everything a little bit blindly. If I don’t, I won’t do anything. I’m not at all an actress. Maybe I’ll be absolutely terrible. I’d like to – you know – when I’m a grandmother, to have done a Woody Allen film. I cannot in my life miss an opportunity like this.”

The bespectacled cinematic legend asked Bruni-Sarkozy not to make another film before his, she said.

Bruni-Sarkozy, a singer-songwriter, has largely shelved her concert tour plans to make way for her responsibilities as France’s first lady.

– Associated Press