American Idol's Kat McPhee to Play Pregnant Hippie in New Film

American Idol's Kat McPhee to Play Pregnant Hippie in New Film
By: Groshan Fabiola

The beauteous Katherine McPhee is having a busy year with the release of her self-titled debut album and her inclusion in her first independent feature film. It was earlier reported that the 23-year old runner-up on season five of American Idol will be part of the movie, The Last Caller, in which McPhee plays a self-obsessed and down on her luck woman who is searching for love. The Last Caller is scheduled to commence filming in New York this fall, under the collaborative efforts of Hilary Shor of Hit and Rub Productions and Nicholas Cokas (McPhee’s boyfriend) of Zenith Film Group.

More recently, Katherine McPhee has also joined the cast of a new comedy from Columbia Pictures and Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison productions. In the still untitled movie, McPhee will portray the part of a pregnant hippie student who also happens to be a member of the saddest, sorriest, most pathetic sorority on campus. The film, which begins production on July 23, revolves around an ex-Playboy bunny who gets booted out of her quarters at the Playboy mansion and is forced to become house mother to the geekiest campus sorority.

Anna Faris, a veteran of all four Scary Movies, plays the newly evicted former Playboy bunny in a cast that also includes Rumer Willis (daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis), Dana Goodman (Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo) and Kat Dennings (The 40 Year Old Virgin).

Prior to her two upcoming movie projects, Katherine McPhee’s big screen exposure had previously been limited to a brief appearance in the 2006 biopic, Crazy, based on the life of Hank Garland, a legendary guitar player who rose to fame in Nashville in the 1950s. The American Idol alum also did a cameo on the ABC series, Ugly Betty, as well as theatrical turns on Annie Get Your Gun, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and You Are Here.