Aubrey Plaza admits to "challenge" playing a real-life person in 'The Heidi Fleiss Story'

Aubrey Plaza is opening up about how she's preparing to star in and produce a new biopic about Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, The Heidi Fleiss Story. The dark comedy will serve as Leah Rachel's directorial debut, with Rachel Sennott writing the script alongside Rachel and Travis Jackson. 

"I’ve been on this track for a while," the actress explained to IndieWire. "I got it in my head that I wanted to play her a couple of years ago and I’ve never played a real-life person before. It’s a different kind of scale, challenge, that I’m really excited about, and I just think she’s an incredible person, incredible character. The story is insane. She’s done something that probably nobody else has ever done, and she’s still going. I think she’s the ultimate bad--- icon and she deserves the royal treatment. We shall give it to her." 

In addition to Plaza producing for Evil Hag, Jessamine Burgum and Kara Durrett will produce for Pinky Promise. Production is currently scheduled for this year in Los Angeles.