LOS ANGELES, CA — She may be recovering from giving birth to two incredibly rich and photogenic offspring, but Angelina Jolie is already thinking about her next motion picture role – and soliciting advice and feedback from close friends, including porn star Tera Patrick.Jolie may well follow in the kitty cat footsteps of Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, Eartha Kitt, Michelle Pfeiffer – as well as the best forgotten Halle Berry – and don the vinyl suit worn by Selina Kyle – best known to the masses as DC Comics super-villain Catwoman.

Who better to turn to for advice about pussy-focused camera time than a female porn star?

A number of possible characters and performers for the Dark Knight sequel have been bandied about, including Johnny Depp as The Riddler, Philip Seymour Hollman as The Penguin, Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face – and Jolie as Catwoman.

The 33-year-old performer known for her beauty, her husband, her adoption fetish, performing in rock videos, and playing characters as diverse as tomb raiding Lara Croft, a vamped out Grendel’s Mother, and powerful railroad executive Dagny Taggart in next year’s super serious filming of Atlas Shrugged already has the nickname of “Catwoman,” so her casting my be … in the bag.

In order to prepare for the possible role, however, she turned to close friend Patrick, who is said to be a huge Catwoman fan – and not just because it’s the nickname of her gorgeous gal pal.

“They are friends and keep in touch via email,” the New York Times and other press outlets quote a source as explaining. “She and Angie have a girl-talk thing going. After seeing reports that she’ll land the lead role, Jolie asked Patrick what she thought. Tera had suck insights into the role that Jolie cracked, ‘she should do it!.’”

The idea of a professionally sexy woman portraying a sexy woman is intriguing – especially given how villanized the adult entertainment industry is in the minds of sexual traditionalists. Who better to play a dangerously erotic woman who can run in high heels?