That includes original American Psycho star Chloë Sevigny—still considered, along with Zoë Kravitz, to be one of movie-making’s top performers whose name you have to copy-and-paste because the e with the umlaut over it is hard to remember how to type—who apparently pitched herself to Guadagnino to reprise her role as Jean,

As Hollywood patiently awaits a new Patrick Bateman, one American Psycho (2000) alum wants to reprise their role. Chloë Sevigny, who can next be seen in Luca Guadagnino‘s thriller After the Hunt, revealed she pitched the director on revisiting the character of Patrick’s secretary Jean in his upcoming adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ 1991 book.

Chloë Sevigny wants in on Luca Guadagnino ‘s new American Psycho film. Sevigny played Patrick Bateman’s secretary, Jean, in the 2000 satire, directed by Mary Harron. When she heard that Guadagnino would direct a new adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name, she made her interest known to the filmmaker.