Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez, the first runner-up in the Miss Universe 2015, has been cast in Vin Diesel's "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage," which has Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone in an important role.
According to a TMZ.com report, Gutierrez will play Vin's love interest and have a significant role with six scenes and three pages of dialogues. Ariadna gained a lot of recognition at the Miss Universe pageant when host Steve Harvey mistakenly announced her as the winner instead of Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, who actually won the title. Ariadna's glory lasted for just about two minutes, when Harvey soon realised that he had misread the winner's name.
The shooting of "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage" is currently going on in the Dominican Republic and the model will soon start filming for her portions with Vin and the team.
Earlier, there were reports that Deepika will be playing the Hollywood actor's love interest. However, with the news of Ariadna playing Vin's lover, speculation are rife that Deepika will be essaying the role of Vin's ex-lover while Ariadna will be seen as the actor's current girlfriend.
Production house Paramount recently announced Jan. 20, 2017, as the release date of "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage." The film is the third instalment of the "XXX" franchise.
Meanwhile, Deepika's fans are thrilled to watch her sharing screen space with big Hollywood names like Vin, Tony Jaa, Ruby Rose, Donnie Yen, Samuel L Jackson and Nina Dobrev. Directed by D J Caruso, the makers of the film have been releasing different stills from the movie, thereby creating a good hype around it. There are reports that Deepika and Vin will have some intimate scenes in the film as well.
