Salma Hayek, who has a recurring role on "Ugly Betty", has signed on to star opposite John C. Reilly in Universal Pictures' family horror drama Cirque du Freak, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film, to be directed by Paul Weitz (The Golden Compass, "About a Boy"), is based on a best-selling children's book series by Darren Shan.
Reilly, currently starring in the rock biopic satire Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, will play a vampire who drafts a teenager to serve as his assistant. The youth is then turned into a half-vampire and goes to live in a circus of freaks that includes Hayek's character. She will play a bearded lady named Madame Truska.
Production on the film is expected to begin next month.
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