Kent glamour model Keeley Hazell is gracing the nation’s big screens for the first time.
The former Bromley schoolgirl, recently voted the third sexiest woman in the world by FHM readers, has a small part in independent British film Cashback.
The film was shot in 2006 by director Sean Ellis and has spent the last two years on the international festival circuit. It finally received its full British cinema release on Friday.
True to form, Keeley plays the minor role of Naked Girl, a part that involved wandering around a supermarket with her clothes off.
She told KOS Media: “I’m really pleased to be in this film, even if I do have a small role. I’m hoping it’s the shape of things to come and I get offered more movie roles.
“It’s a really good film and I had loads of fun making it. I’m glad it is finally getting the cinema release it deserves.”
Cashback is an expanded version of a short film of the same name that earned Mr Ellis an Oscar nomination for Live Action Short Film in 2006.
It tells the story of an aspiring artist called Ben who suffers from insomnia after breaking up with his girlfriend Suzy.
He takes up a job working the night shift in a supermarket, where he meets and falls in love with a colleague.
While at the supermarket his imagination runs wild. Among his fantasies is the ability to stop time, which he uses to undress female shoppers, including Keeley, and draw them.
Former EastEnder and Bionic Woman star Michelle Ryan takes the role of Suzy.
In a newspaper interview she said that she enjoyed doing the dramatic break-up scenes with Ben, played by Sean Biggerstaff.
She said: “It was fun getting stuck in and doing a lot of shouting. I’ve never had to go through the trauma Suzy and Ben go through in the film.
“However, I can appreciate how stressful it can be. I was worn out afterwards.”
Cashback has received mixed reviews from critics.
Film website Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 44 per cent rotten rating and described it as “full of unlikeable characters, messy editing and gratuitous nudity”.
However, Variety’s Justin Chang called it “slickly charming, genteelly erotic and directed with supreme polish”.
POSTED: 11/05/2008 16:00:00
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