France's first lady to star in Woody Allen film

France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, arrives at the Andy Warhol Museum for a tour hosted by U.S. first lady Michelle Obama during the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 25, 2009. (Reuters Photo)

France's first lady Carla Bruni has announced that she would star in Oscar-winning U.S. director Woody Allen's next film.

Bruni told Canal+ television on Monday night that she has accepted Allen's invitation and will appear in his next film.

"Woody Allen suggested I appear in his next film, I don't know what the role would be, but I said yes," said Bruni. "I go into everything blindly, or I'd never do anything at all."

"I'm not an actress at all. Perhaps I'll be completely hopeless but I can't miss an opportunity like this one," she said.

Allen expressed his wish to work with Bruni when he came to Paris this June to promote his last film "Whatever Works."

"I'm sure she would be wonderful, she has charisma and she performs, so she's not a stranger to an audience, and I would cast her in many different ways," Allen said of Bruni.

Bruni was born in Turin, Italy, in 1968, and moved with her family to France later. In February 2008, she married French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Before that, she was a supermodel, and started her pop music career in 1999.