Cher wants "dumb" comedy role

Los Angeles – Cher wants to star in the Johnny Knoxville comedy The Drop-Out.

The actress-singer – who will soon be seen in Burlesque alongside Christina Aguilera – has confirmed the project is likely to still be made following casting rumours in 2009, noting it is one of only two scripts alongside Mamma Mia! she has been interested in.

Talking about the project, Cher – who is set to play the neighbour of a 30-year-old slacker who is kicked out of his home by his parents – said: "It's very dumb, very 14-year-old boy humour. I love it."

She also confirmed while at a roundtable discussion for Burlesque she could not star in Mamma Mia!, which starred Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper, because of her hectic tour schedule.

Cher – who won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988 for the movie Moonstruck – has only starred in two movies in the last 11 years, 1999's Tea with Mussolini and Stuck on You in 2003.