{"id":754888,"date":"2026-07-10T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754888\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:39:08","slug":"larry-birkhead-speaks-out-against-anna-nicole-smith-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754888\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Birkhead Speaks Out Against Anna Nicole Smith Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/larry-birkhead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Birkhead<\/a> recently spoke out against the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/anna-nicole-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Nicole Smith<\/a> biopic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/trust-me-im-a-doctor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trust Me, I\u2019m a Doctor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/entertainment-tonight\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a> published on July 9, the father of Smith\u2019s daughter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1261764\/dannielynn-birkhead-new-look-barnstable-brown-party-anna-nicole-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dannielynn Birkhead<\/a>, 19, made it clear that they are not involved in the production in any way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe absolutely object to, you know, any of Anna Nicole\u2019s, my life, my daughter\u2019s life being used in a movie,\u201d he told ET. \u201cAnd being made characters out of by someone that was a doctor that supposedly that people were supposed to trust.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Smith died at 39, following an accidental overdose. The film, starring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/abbie-cornish\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abbie Cornish<\/a>, follows Dr. Sandeep Kapoor\u2019s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/kal-penn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kal Penn<\/a>) 2017 book, which details the physician\u2019s implication in Smith\u2019s death after her body was found in a hotel room in Hollywood, Florida. Kapoor had prescribed methadone to the Playboy model under a false name.<\/p>\n<p>Birkhead, 53, also told ET, \u201cI recently saw the actress that is portraying Anna. You know, I\u2019m sure she\u2019s probably a nice girl and a great actress. But I don\u2019t think she quite embodied Anna Nicole. And that\u2019s not really an attack on her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larry Birkhead recently spoke out against the upcoming Anna Nicole Smith biopic, Trust Me, I\u2019m a Doctor. During&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-754888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}