MUMBAI: Jessica Biel will play actress Vera Miles in Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho. James D‘Arcy is being asked to join the cast to play the role of Anthony Perkins.

The film has Anthony Hopkins playing Hitchcock while Helen Mirren will play his wife, Alma.

It may be remembered that Miles played Lila Crane, the heroine of the 1960 horror classic who visits the Bates Motel in search of her missing sister Janet Leigh, the role to be portrayed by Scarlett Johansson.