French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis is set to make her first English-language movie - she’s been cast alongside Michael Madsen in The Midwife Crisis.

Paradis, the longterm partner of Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp, has made only a handful of forays into the acting industry since winning a Cesar Award for 1989 film Noce Blanche (A White Wedding).

Shooting on the film is due to start in New York in September (08), but The Midwife Crisis director Mabrouk el Mechri warns it won’t be your average romantic comedy.

He tells the Hollywood Reporter, "It’s not your typical cheesy romantic comedy. It’s not Hugh Grant.

"I don’t want to film New York like a tourist. No squirrels in Union Square, no zooming in from the Empire State Building to a close-up of Vanessa Paradis."