James Marsden has his eyes set on a dream role — and it involves singing.
While dreaming up his next role in an interview with the New York Post published on Tuesday, Feb. 25, the Paradise star, 51, said he would love to portray a musician next, particularly Frank Sinatra.
“I’ve always loved emulating some of the old crooners, like Bobby Darin and Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. I always thought there were so many interesting stories of Frank Sinatra’s life that could be played,” said Marsden. “And for whatever reason, you’ve never really seen a movie about him.”
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He envisions a Sinatra biopic filled with “so many stories” that haven’t been told.
“I just think there’s so many stories that could be told about that man – some of the really tortured and darker stories, and some uplifting ones as well. What he did, what he accomplished,” said Marsden. “I’ve never really done a biopic about somebody.”
Sinatra died in 1998 at the age of 82. He left behind three children and decades of memorable works in film and music.
Marsden, whose most recent film is December’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3, said it would be “a lot of fun” and he “would love to “make a biopic about Sinatra “like what Jamie Foxx did with Ray Charles.”
Singing in front of a camera is also nothing new to Marsden.
The actor’s film credits include 2007’s Enchanted, where he played Prince Edward, and its 2022 sequel, Disenchanted.
He also showed off his vocal talents when he played Corny Collins, the host of The Corny Collins Show in 2007’s Hairspray, a film adaptation of the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name (itself based on John Waters’ 1988 movie starring Ricki Lake.)
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Marsden told the New York Post that filming Hairspray made him realize he wanted to pursue musical content further.
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