First revealed by Page Six and subsequently confirmed by People, actress Tara Reid is reportedly in talks to play Carole Baskin in the upcoming live-action narrative feature adaptation of the Netflix documentary series.
Her manager and business partner, Philippe Ashfield, says the “Sharknado” and “Josie and the Pussycats” actress “is being considered by the producers of the Tiger King production” and can’t say much other than that for the time being. He adds that Reid is a fan of the docuseries and “feels she could get into the character of Carole Baskin very well”.
The seven-part Netflix docoseries focused on the long-standing, increasingly bitter rivalry between Joseph Maldonado-Passage (a.k.a. Joe Exotic), the now-imprisoned founder of an exotic animal park in Oklahoma, and Baskin, who runs an exotic big-cat sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue, in Citrus Park, Florida.
Netflix is backing this scripted film adaptation of the original doco, and the project is separate from both Universal’s podcast adaptation with Kate McKinnon as Baskin along with Imagine & CBS’ eight-episode series remake with Nicolas Cage as Joe Exotic.
