Supermodel Naomi Campbell www.famousfeetdaily.com/category/naomi-campbell-feet/ is to appear in a film by a French director dubbed “the queen of porn”.

She will play a jilted wife in Bad Love, the latest offering from the controversial film-maker Catherine Breillat.

“I’m not sure if I’ll be able to show as much naked skin as her other actresses, but we’ll see,” Campbell, 37, told Paris Match magazine.

“I don’t know if I’ll make a good actress, but I’ll do my best. I am no stranger to controversy.”

Breillat said of the model: “Her body is sublime, but it’s her face that interests me most. I ask all my actors to bare their souls to me and trust me completely, and she will be no exception.”

Bad Love will be based on Breillat’s own novel and spoken in a mixture of English and Chinese.

Campbell’s co-star will be Christopher Rocancourt, a convicted fraudster who conned the rich and famous out of millions by posing as a member of the Rockefeller dynasty. He has become something of a celebrity in France since his release from prison two years ago.

Breillat has provoked outrage over the years with her X-rated films and cheerfully admits: “I am the pariah of French cinema. Some people refuse even to read my scripts. But it also makes me very happy because hatred is invigorating. All true artists are hated. Only conformists are ever adored.”

Her first film, Une Vraie Jeune Fille, was a controversial account of a 14-year-old girl’s sexual awakening. It was released in 1976 but immediately banned by French censors, re-emerging some 23 years later.

The 1999 film Romance, starring hardcore porn star Rocco Siffredi, shocked audiences with its graphic scenes of sex and violence.

This is not the first acting role for Campbell – she appeared in Spike Lee’s Girl 6 and has just filmed a cameo in the hit US television series Ugly Betty, playing “a loony who loves to shop”.