Beyonce Knowles and "Desperate Housewives" starlet Eva Longoria recently revealed they will soon be playing lesbian lovers in a new version of Victorian drama "Tipping The Velvet".

Director Sofia Coppola ("Lost in Translation", "Marie Antoinette") aims to bring Sarah Water's novel about sexual repression to the big screen and is anxious for Beyonce and Eva to take the roles of 1890s music hall star Kitty Butler, and her lesbian lover Nan Astley.

Longoria, 31, said, "Yes it's true. We are talking about doing the movie together. It's such a wonderful novel, a beautiful love story." Beyonce said at a recent benefit in New York that "We've had 'Brokeback Mountain' so the time is right for this divine novel to get the same treatment."

The love scenes hold no hesitation for them, a source All Headline News that "They weren't at all coy about the sex scenes. In fact they both seemed to think it would be more fun than doing the same work with a man. It's going to be very hot".

If the name sounds familiar, then you might be recalling the previous adaptation of the work - an acclaimed 2002 BBC mini-series directed by Geoffrey Sax ("White Noise", "Stormbreaker") and adapted by scribe Andrew Davies ("Bridget Jones's Diary", TV's "Pride and Prejudice" and "Bleak House").