When producers were searching for a middle-aged man to play a "fading Don Juan" in the new film The Man From Elysian Fields, they set their sights on veteran rocker Mick Jagger.
Mick, 59, was picked after the director George Hickenlooper remembered him from the singer's famous screen role as the decadent rock star in Nicolas Roeg´s 1970 classic Performance.
Wearing a pinstripe suit and red silk tie with his hair slicked back in the new movie, Sir Mick could easily pass for an investment banker or even a Conservative MP. But in The Man From Elysian Fields he plays Luther Fox, the sinister owner of a male escort agency.
The film, which opens in the States this month and is billed as a daring and stylish morality play, stars Andy Garcia as a struggling writer who starts work at Fox's agency to pay the bills. It also features Hollywood veterans James Coburn and Anjelica Huston.
Mick, who played the title role in the 1970 movie Ned Kelly, has won over American critics with his appearance in the new film. The Los Angeles Times said he "gives his best performance", while Rolling Stone magazine said: "Jagger the actor is someone you want to see again."
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