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US Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen attends the Elton John Oscars party after the 78th Academy Awards in HollywoodReuters
Sasha Cohen wouldn't mind being in Ben Stiller's figure skating movie. “It’s not like it would be a stretch and hopefully I’ll get to be funny.”

LOS ANGELES - Could there be Oscar gold ahead for Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen?

Fresh from the Turin winter games, where she came back from a fall to take second place in figure skating, Cohen has taken a spin into the Hollywood arena.

The diminutive brunette served as a special correspondent for TV’s “Inside Edition” at Sunday’s Academy Awards and the star-studded parties that followed. Her whirl through the celebrity world led to an offer for a cameo role in an upcoming picture, she said.

Actor-comedian Ben Stiller approached her at the Vanity Fair party to talk about his next project: a comedy focusing on figure skating, Cohen said.

“I want to do it,” she said. “It’s not like it would be a stretch and hopefully I’ll get to be funny.”

Cohen, 21, said the world of competitive skating should provide ample comedic material.

“There are a lot of characters in skating,” she said.

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