2012 is definitely Paula Patton's year. The knockout actress, who starred opposite Tom Cruise in the blockbuster film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, will play the female lead in action-thriller 2 Guns, also starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. Deadline.com reports that Patton will play Washington's love interest in the heist movie, about a DEA agent and a Naval Intelligence officer who accidentally rob the CIA.
The new mom just wrapped production on the drama Disconnect, with Alexander Skarsgard and Jason Bateman, and made her debut as the new spokesperson for Pepsi NEXT on Monday.
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