While news of who is playing Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino's upcoming American Psycho is still up for debate (Austin Butler is reportedly in talks, and Patrick Schwarzenegger has recently put his name forward), Chloë Sevigny, who played Bateman's long-suffering, timid secretary Jean in Mary Harron's 2000 original, is definitely down to return.
As reported back in October of last year, the Suspiria and Queer director is set to helm a new take on Bret Easton Ellis' controversial 1991 novel for Lionsgate, with Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, Side Effects, The Bourne Ultimatum) adapting the story for a new screenplay.
Speaking with IndieWire last week, Sevigny, who starred alongside Christian Bale as the titular yuppie maniac, expressed an interest at returning to play Jean in some capacity:
“I pitched to him that I should play Jean again, and that they do that reverse-aging on me. I thought that would be something that he would be into, conceptually having the same actress play the same part. But I don’t know. He said he was going to think of something else for me.”
Should Sevigny have a role in American Psycho as Jean or otherwise, it would be the fifth project the pair have worked on together, following her roles in Guadagnino-directed 2020 miniseries We Are Who We Are, the cannibal romance Bones and All, and the upcoming thriller After the Hunt, as well as war satire Atropia, which Guadagnino produced.
Polarizing upon release, Harron's American Psycho has recently gone on to be rightfully reevaluated for a biting satirical examination of modern masculinity and capitalism, not to mention having spawned countless memes and securing its place firmly in the annals of pop culture.
Look out for more on Guadagnino's American Psycho as we get it.
