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By Joe Otterson

Joe Otterson

TV Reporter

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Jessica Biel has joined the cast of the upcoming film “Playmates,” Variety has learned.

Biel will now star opposite previously announced cast members Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Pullman, and Indiana Elle. The film will mark the feature writing and directorial debut of Lorraine Nicholson.

The official logline for “Playmates” states, “Elle (Elle), a thirteen-year-old know-it-all who considers the Playboy Mansion her second home, meets Anna (Depp), one of seven hopefuls vying to be Playmate of the Month. The two form an unlikely friendship and try to help each other get what the other wants most, a magazine cover and a boy.”

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