Well this is perfectly boring. Kelly Preston just signed on as Victoria Gotti, wife of John Gotti (not to be confused with his daughter Victoria) in the upcoming biopic about, well, the Gottis. Why boring? Let's consider the fact that her real-life husband, John Travolta, will play John Gotti and that we've seen enough of this couple all over tabloids for years. Now they're going to be playing mob husband and wife, but really, it just seems a little lazy.
Then there's the aspect that Preston's acting is pretty vanilla for the most part. Even when she got to be a little interesting and, dare I say it, slutty in Jerry Maguire, she's still decidedly Preston-ish. But hey, maybe they were looking to find someone vanilla. Gotti: Three Generations already got Travolta and they recently added Lindsay Lohan as the junior Gotti's wife, Kim. Maybe they've got enough personality, character, insanity or whatever you want to call it with those two.
The flick also recently added director Barry Levinson to replace Nick Cassavetes, which is a bit perplexing. Any way you slice it, this film is looking to be an strange mix of people; maybe that will work to its advantage, or maybe it will be just as hodgepodge as it looks to be now.
Source: NY Post