Kim Basinger is the new 50 Shades of Grey cougar – WATCH her scenes here
Kim Basinger was the beautiful actress of her generation and will be adding some sizzle as Christian Grey's older lover in the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel Fifty Shades Darker.
Basinger has pipped Charlize Theron to the post after the Mad Max star was the hot favourite.
At the incredible age of 62, the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell is set to show a new generation how it's done.
Our selection of some of her sauciest clips show exactly why.
This legendary symbol clearly has a thing for numbers after steaming up the screen in 9 1/2 Weeks. Now she is set to raise the numbers, the stakes and temperatures as she sizzles a powerful cougar in Fifty Shades Darker.
It's incredible to think that 9 1/2 Weeks was released a whopping THIRTY years agao in 1986.
At 62, Basinger will play the other woman competing for Christian Grey's attentions in the eagerly awaited new film.
How on Earth can poor Dakota Johnson, a mere slip of a girl at 26, compete with that?
Kim will play the key role of Elena Lincoln, Christian Grey’s business partner and former lover, in Fifty Shades Darker.
The character is referenced in the first film, but Kim is set to make a big splash in the sequel.
Lincoln is much older than Christian Grey, who is 27 in the books. Although Jamie Dornan himself is 33, that still makes a 29-year age gap between the two se*y stars.
Recent pictures of the ever-beautiful Kim prove that she will be more than convincing as the older lover of the S&M playboy.
The author EL James has already set her stamp of approval on the casting, retweeting out the announcement as soon as it was made.
Dakota Johnson will be returning to reprise her role as Anastasia Steele, with James Foley taking over directing from Sam Taylor-Johnson.
WATCH THAT STRIPTEASE SCENE FROM 9 1/2 WEEKS NEXT:
Production is due to begin in the spring and the film makers Universal is planning to shoot both Fifty Shades Darker and the final film in the trilogy, Fifty Shades Freed, back-to-back.
Fifty Shades Darker will be released in 2017, with Fifty Shades Freed following in 2018.
As for Kim, she managed to make the contents of a fridge the se*iest thing on the big screen for an entire decade, so she should have no problem managing with a few whips and chains.
The actress once acknowledged the difficulties of being viewed as a s** symbol, saying: "Any girl who comes to Hollywood with s*x symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road."
So, it's not surprising that she is still best-remembered for THOSE s*x-y scenes in 9 1/2 Weeks.
Basinger did get a chance prove her acting abilities when she won an Oscar for her moving portrayal of a Hollywood call girl in LA Confidential.
She's also been happy to poke fun at her s*-x symbol image in films like My Stepmother Is An Alien and Wayne's World 2.
Even so, we can't wait to see her get her teeth (maybe literally) into Christian Grey in the new film...
